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		<title>Editorial: Budget problems are getting worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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From The Pantagraph&#8217;s Annual Report &#124; March 27, 2010
By Dale Strasseim
President and CEO, The Baby Fold
One of the hardest adjustments I made when I became the president of The Baby Fold in 2002 was the budgeting process. Although my background was always in the nonprofit world, I never experienced a situation where payment for services [...]


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		<title>Agencies threatened by proposed budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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Dale Strassheim, CEO of The Baby Fold, center left, talks to Rick Glass of Marcfirst about concerns that the state has withheld $11 million from agencies in the county. Lisa Pieper, left, with the Children&#39;s Foundation and Alan Sender, right, with Chestnut Health Systems express their concerns for the future of their agencies. (Pantagraph file [...]


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		<title>State of Illinois unpaid bills threatening McLean County agencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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The backlog of State of Illinois unpaid bills, which has already surpassed $5.1 billion, is beginning to seriously affect McLean County agencies’ ability to serve their clients.
Recently, a group of over 25 United Way of McLean County agencies were surveyed to determine the impact of the payment slowdown.  Many of these agencies are struggling to [...]


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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>
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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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		<title>Adoptive Family Worries about Budget Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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This letter was written from a concerned client of The Baby Fold:
&#8220;My husband and I are adoptive parents to six kids, five of which have special needs. We have a horrible time getting services for these kids on a good day but it is getting worse..
We have two mentally ill kids that receive services from [...]


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