On September 14, 2018, community organizers and human service stakeholders from Macon County met to re-establish their community coalition called the Permanency Enhancement Project (PEP) Action Team of Macon County.
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Developing a Foster Youth Scholars Program
With the help of Illinois State students who lived in the foster care system, the Center for Adoption Studies is looking to build a Foster Youth Scholars program on campus.
Happy ending for Redbird center’s search for birth parents
For a big guy, Charles Cowley is quick. But it wasn’t Cowley’s speed that helped him solve the biggest mystery in his life, the one that’s been tugging at him since he was a kid, the one that took literally years to unravel.
Jeanne Howard earns Chairman’s Award from African American Advisory Council
Dr. Jeanne Howard from Illinois State’s Center for Adoption Studies has earned the Chairman’s Award from the Department of Children and Family Services African American Advisory Council.
University to host meeting for prospective foster parents, June 7
“Foster parents provide a source of stability for a child whose family is vulnerable,” said Doris Houston, associate director of the Center for Adoption Studies at Illinois State,
who is helping to plan the Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize conference. “And opening their homes to these children offers foster parents a wealth of ways to enrich their own lives, while helping an at-risk child.”