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Safe Families Kansas describes volunteer-host model, reports 60 host families and 85% retention; says funding includes state SGF support
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Safe Families Kansas presented examples of volunteers hosting children temporarily to help families in crisis, described regional expansion and said it has about 60 host families in the state with roughly an 85% retention rate. The presenter described partnerships with DCF and hospitals and said the organization
A representative of Safe Families Kansas described the nonprofit’s volunteer-host model to the Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee, highlighted several individual cases and provided operating and scale figures, including about 60 host families in Kansas and an 85 percent retention rate among hosts.
"Our mission is to host and create extended like family supports for vulnerable families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated to keep children safe and families intact," the presenter, identified in the meeting as Tammy of Safe Families Kansas, told the committee.
Tammy said Safe Families…
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