Children & Families of Iowa

Children & Families of Iowa is a nonprofit organization serving at-risk children and families in Iowa. The organization was started in 1888.[1]

Its Elevate youth-driven foster care program was started in the summer of 2005 in Des Moines, Iowa as a support group for fostered and adopted youth.[2] Elevate's activities include training and empowering youth to advocate for themselves and others, educating legislators and other decision makers, developing partnerships to help youth successfully age out of foster care and encouraging others to open their homes to foster teens. Membership includes current and former foster youth, adoptees from the foster care system and the biological children of foster and adoptive parents. Foster care alumni, social workers, foster and adoptive parents and juvenile attorneys function as supports for the group.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Touching Lives Across Iowa Since 1888". Children & Families of Iowa.
  2. ^ Children & Families of Iowa’s Elevate Program Celebrates Fifth Anniversary 27 July 2010
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