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	<title>The Baby Fold &#187; Foster Care</title>
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		<title>The Baby Fold focuses on adoption for &#8216;most vulnerable&#8217; children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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In light of current adoption trends, community needs and state funding setbacks, The Baby Fold is moving its adoption focus away from domestic infants and exclusively toward international, residential, and foster care adoptions.
For 108 years The Baby Fold has strived to provide permanent homes for the most vulnerable children in the agency’s care. In 1902, [...]


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		<title>Baby Fold Manager Blum Named to Leadership Academy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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Karen Blum, Associate Director of Foster Care Services for The Baby Fold, has been selected to participate in The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s Leadership Academy for Middle Managers on September 14-19, 2009, in Denver, Colorado.
Blum was one of only 14 middle managers from across the state of Illinois to be chosen, with seven chosen [...]


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		<title>Having a say in my future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern</dc:creator>
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Dear Mr. Brady,
My name is Mariah.  I met you today in city hall.  You told me that you can have a say if there is an idea for a law, and I am asking you to help me.  Without my counselor, I will not be able to get better from what my birth parents did [...]


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		<title>Child&#8217;s life changed for the better by services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern</dc:creator>
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Representative Brady,
My name is Shyla, and I am thirteen years old.  But this isn&#8217;t about me.  This is about all those foster parents, foster children, special needs people and most of all The Baby Fold.  If you cut back money, it will change peoples&#8217; lives but not for the best.  Trust me, DCFS and The [...]


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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few things are more traumatic for a child than removal from a home because of abuse or neglect. When the removal process includes placement in a foster home many miles from home, the experience can be even more stressful.



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