Posted in abuse, authors, awareness, cancer, celebrity, children, commitment, communication, compassion, competition, contest, domestic violence, Dreams, Education, emotions, encouragement, Fame, family, foster parenting, health, Heart, help, Impact, kids, leadership, learning, legacy, life, media, mental and physical health, micro media (social networking), micro media (social networking), news, observations, of connections, Opportunities, poverty, power, press release, press release, protect, publicity, purpose, relationships, service, support, teens, Threats, Twitter, values, violence on Feb 16th, 2010
Jessica Angelique is the creator of Definitive Voices;she is in the running for a grant of $250,000 from Pepsi Refresh Project. She plans to help showcase non profits who help those in need.
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Posted in accomplishments, adoption, Advocating for special needs, authors, awareness, cancer, charitable organizations, charity, children, communication, compassion, competition, contest, drinks, Education, emotions, giving, goals, health, Heart, help, Impact, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, media on Feb 1st, 2010
Why can’t television be used to build people up instead of tearing them down? Pepsi is running a competition for grant money-please vote for Definitive Voices.
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Posted in abandonment, abuse, adoption, Advocating for special needs, attitude, authorities, awareness, children, compassion, confidence, control, Education, emotions, family, foster parenting, Frustration, help, home, kids, legal, life, loss, love, mental and physical health, observations, of connections, pain and misery, parenting, protect, relationships, safety, service, support, teens, trust, well-being on Sep 14th, 2009
Teens or older kids in foster care suffer for lack of a permanent place to belong. How can you help someone to find a healthy place to begin their life as an adult?
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Posted in accomplishments, adoption, Advocating for special needs, Amazing, awareness, baby, birth, Business, children, coaching, commitment, communication, compassion, Creating, encouragement, family, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, foster parenting, Frustration, grandchildren, grandparents, health, Heart, help, hospital, hospitals, Impact, leadership, learning, life, medical, mental and physical health, news, observations, of connections, Opportunities, organizations for special needs, parenting, Passion, patience, pregnancy, relationships, special needs, support, Twitter, well-being, words, writing for children on Jul 31st, 2009
Louise Sattler has created a DVD for young children and babies to communicate with others through sign language. It is bi-lingual and benefits people with or without disabilities.
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Posted in adoption, baby, children, commitment, culture, economy, Education, emergency, emotions, failure, Faith, family, fathers, Fear, finances, foster parenting, Frustration, future, government, grandchildren, health, Heart, help, hospitals, Impact, kids, law enforcement, legal, life, loneliness, loss, love, media, mental and physical health, mom, MONEY, news, of connections, pain and misery, parenting, pregnancy, relationships, safety, stress, support, trauma on Sep 25th, 2008
Another family has made the news by dropping off their children, 9 of them from ages 1 to 17 at a hospital in Nebraska. It is in my mind, in cases of abandonment, almost as if the children are treated like a litter of unwanted puppies. In mid July, Nebraska made its own news headlines by instituting a “safe [...]
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Posted in baby, bride, children, crime, emotions, Faith, fathers, finances, foster parenting, Frustration, health, help, home, kids, law enforcement, legal, life, loss, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, parenting, power, pregnancy, religion, sadness, safety, trauma on May 22nd, 2008
In Texas, an appeals court overruled the state’s decision to remove the children of the sect, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The appeals court has found that the CPS department had not proven evidence of immediate danger of physical health or safety of children who had not reached puberty. The [...]
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Posted in children, communication, emergency, family, foster parenting, home, hospital, Impact, law enforcement, legal, mental and physical health on Apr 28th, 2008
Here is a news item that will make your head spin. Think you are a good parent? What if you made a simple, honest mistake? Do you understand that a simple misunderstanding could cause you to loose the custody of your child to a government agency…even for just a few days? Child Protective [...]
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Posted in children, Impact, kids, mother on Apr 15th, 2008
It was announced today that the court in Texas that has authority over the 416 children that were removed under suspicion of abuse from their parents who are part of the polyamous sect of Latter Day Saints has deemed it necessary to move 27 of those children. The 27 chosen children are actually teenaged [...]
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Posted in baby, bride, children, Faith, Fear, foster parenting, help, husband, kids, mental and physical health, mom, mother, pain and misery, power, sadness, safety, Teen Pregnancy, trauma on Apr 12th, 2008
Say what you want about “religous” groups that segregate themselves away from society…but, the children are the innocents in those situations; the children involved in the Fundalmentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are probably going to end up in foster care en masse. There have been claims of physical, sexual, spiritual and emotional [...]
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