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The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
DePelchin Children's Center, founded in 1892 in Houston, Texas, is a nonprofit organization focused on supporting and sustaining children and the families who care for them. DePelchin provides a range of services for children and families — it is an accredited foster care and adoption agency, and it also provides residential treatment for ...
The Makers of Memories Foundation was established in 2007 by marketing and media entrepreneur Brian F. Martin. Martin was raised in a family with chronic, serious abuse and created the Foundation to help families and children overcome the trauma of domestic violence they experienced and to pursue more positive possibilities in their lives.
GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE @STARADVERTISER.COM Amanda Pump, CEO of Child & Family Service, left, and Program Director Rosanna Daniel-Kanetake played with Izzy, a 6-year-old English Labrador Tuesday at a ...
Baby2Baby is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides diapers, formula, clothing and other basic necessities for children living in poverty across the country. [1] Baby2Baby has distributed over 450 million essential items to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals, and underserved ...
Texas law doesn’t say what age is old enough for a child to stay at home alone. But parents and caregivers are still accountable for a kid’s care, and inadequate supervision can be a type of ...
Police in Arlington have released the arrest warrant affidavit for the owner of five unlicensed North Texas community homes authorities allege have been abusing, neglecting and stealing from ...
The bill was drafted to provide more funding and services for domestic violence shelters across the country, to change the way police departments and court systems handled domestic violence cases, to provide more training and intervention programs concerning domestic violence, and help support public education campaigns nationwide.