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The goal of the Children's Bureau was: "To serve all children, to try to work out standards of care and protection which shall give to every child fair chance in the world." With the passing of Social Security Act in 1935, the federal government pledged its support of State efforts to extend health and welfare services for mothers and children.
The Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by former US Ambassador Mel Sembler, [2] his wife Betty Sembler (née Schlesinger), and Joseph Zappala [3] as Straight, Inc., [4] renamed The Straight Foundation, Inc. in 1985 and Drug Free America Foundation in 1995. [5] [6]
Subsequently, MGM Resorts granted $30,000 to the WestCare Foundation's Women and Children's Campus in 2015. [22] In 2019, WestCare Kentucky secured a $1.36 million award to transform a building into a rehabilitation center for women. [23] In July 2022, WestCare Arizona received a $500,000 grant from the Arizona Attorney General's Office. [24]
Anne Fletcher, the author of Inside Rehab, a thorough study of the U.S. addiction treatment industry published in 2013, recalled rehabilitation centers derisively diagnosing addicts who were reluctant to go along with the program as having a case of “terminal uniqueness.” It became so ingrained that residents began to criticize themselves ...
On April 25, 2005, Cookie Magazine announced that Semper Fi & America's Fund founder, president and CEO Karen Guenther and co-founders Wendy Lethin and Sondria Saylor, were recipients of the first-ever Smart Cookie Awards, which recognize and support mothers in the business, philanthropy, and celebrity worlds who are making outstanding ...
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation United States: New York City: $4 billion 2018 [40] 41 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Portugal: Lisbon: $4.0 billion €3.72 billion 1956 [41] 42 Volkswagen Stiftung Germany: Hannover: $4 billion €3.5 billion 1961 [42] 43 Tulsa Community Foundation United States: Tulsa: $3.8 billion 1998 [18] 44 The Kresge ...
As of December 31, 2009, the Foundation reached the following milestones in its prevention, care, and treatment initiatives: The Foundation worked in 17 countries and supported more than 4,800 sites. In 2009, more than 2.3 million women accessed Foundation-supported services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
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