Where Home & Love Are Forever
By Sandra Dempsey Post Welcoming a child into a home and family can be wonderful, exciting, challenging, exhausting, and rewarding beyond comparison. As with everything in life, not every step goes perfectly. Some situations need full attention, people willing to help, and ways to find solutions. Sometimes it’s asking for help and often it’s learning […]
Fostering Dignity
Valerie Beguin paints a picture of the scenes she encountered as a former investigator with Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS)…A phone call is made to the Illinois Child Abuse Hotline which initiates an investigation within 24 hours. The anonymous caller reports seeing his neighbor severely beating her 9-year-old son. An investigation by DCFS […]
