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Long-time Children's Service Society board member, Marsha Connet, retired from the agency's Racine advisory board Oct. 31, 2009. Connet has been serving as a board member and also volunteering in many different capacities for more than three decades. Read more.
Children's Service Society of Wisconsin received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families - Children's Bureau. This grant will allow Children's Service Society to expand its Family Finding program to serve all Wisconsin counties. Family Finding locates biological family members for children placed in out-of-home care. Studies show that children thrive when cared for by family members. Read more.
Jessica Holden has a story that doesn't seem like it would end with, and off she goes to college. Listen to Jessica's inspiring interview on WUWM.
Program aims to strengthen families. The Wausau Family Resource Center and University of Wisconsin Extension will offer a free program for parents and youths ages 10 to 14 years old. Since the early 1990s, substance abuse and other behavioral problems have been increasing among America's youths. To counter these trends, we must strengthen prevention efforts.
Volunteers assemble flags in memory of children who lost their lives to chld abuse. The money raised from the flags will go to the Boys and Girls Club and the Children's Service Society of Wisconsin. The flags are $30 and can be purchased through the Healing Fields website.
Children's Service Society is collecting schools supplies for foster children located throughout Milwaukee County. Examples of supplies needed include: backpacks, pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, paper, hand sanitizer and Kleenex. Money donations also will be accepted and will be used to purchase school supplies. Drive by and drop off supplies from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21. Donations will continue to be accepted Monday, Aug. 24 through Thursday, Aug. 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at ChildrenÍs Service SocietyÍs lobby.
 Children's Service Society of Wisconsin's fifteen annual Patrick Hardy Golf Outing will begin at noon on Thursday, July 16 at the Hillcrest Golf and Country Club, 2333 Hillcrest Parkway, Altoona, Wis.
New class on infant development coming to Lincoln County
A new program at Children's Service Society of Wisconsin's Lincoln County Family Resource Center will help parents of newborns care for their "little wonders."
Jennifer Hammel, director of the Child Abuse Prevention Fund discusses Safe at Home and how you can help prevent child abuse on WFAW's Morning Magazine.
Preventing child sexual abuse is adults' job
Participation in sports, camps and music lessons is important and healthy for a child. Unfortunately, organizations sometimes inadvertently can provide an opportunity for a pedophile to molest children. The sexual abuse of a child is a parent's worst nightmare. It seems as though we hear about reports of abuse in the news every day. Parents don't like to talk about it, but studies show that they think about it a lot.
Children's Hospital and Health System launches innovative campaign to fight child abuse and neglect
On an average day in Wisconsin, 23 children are confirmed to be abused or neglected. Because Children's Hospital and Health System believes abuse is preventable, the organization is launching a community-wide campaign to raise money and awareness to fund prevention and intervention programs across Wisconsin. Safe at Home, Be an Advocate for Kids is a way for everyday people to stop the hand of abuse.
Pilot funds awarded to prevent child sexual abuse
Awareness to Action, a statewide initiative focused on the prevention of child sexual abuse, awarded The Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Appleton, Wis., and The Parenting Network, Milwaukee, funding to implement a community-wide pilot program that raises awareness about child sexual abuse.
Mother to many
She gave birth to two; the rest came into the home she built with her husband, John, for weeks, sometimes years, as foster children. The Sundees have been foster parents for 27 years, most of that time as treatment foster parents, caring for kids who have physical, emotional or cognitive disabilities as well as problems at home.
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