Ideas for Giving and Moving Forward in 2020
Ideas for Giving and Moving Forward Family Education & Support Services continues to move forward with its important work. In the midst of all that is going on, many of our friends and supporters are looking forward to the future when they can enjoy community with friends [...]
Voices of Children 2020
17th Annual Voices of Children For every child who can no longer live with his or her birth parents and is living in a foster home, about 10 more are living with relatives. For 17 years, FESS has sponsored a contest asking those children to tell us [...]
Helping Parents Build Resilient Children
Scott Hanauer, Clinical Director Helping Parents Build Resilient ChildrenScott Hanauer, Family Education & Support Services Clinical DirectorThe work of Family Education and Support Services has become centered on helping parents build resilience to help them raise resilient children. FESS programs can help all adults with children raise [...]
Parent Shares Story
Centrailia Parent Shares How Nonprofit Saved Her from Homelessness and Despair Originally published in The Daily Chronicle. With a meth addiction standing in the way of her raising her five children, Samantha Davis didn’t know what to do until she received a visit that changed the course [...]
Supporting Families in the Kinship Caregiver Program
Lynn Urvina: Supporting Families in the Kinship Caregiver Program Originally published in Thurston Talk. Casey Family Programs, their national award ceremony last January in Seattle. Lynn Urvina is pictured here with her daughter Tara; William C. Bell, Ph.D. President of Casey Family Programs (left); and David C. [...]