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12825200? ago

A list of child abuse organisations that might require our attention. https://projectworldimpact.com/cause/Child-Abuse/organizations

One listed is : GIRLS SHELTER OF FORT SMITH ARK INC

website (notice the butterfly logo) http://girlsshelterfs.org/about/

The Girls Shelter is a residential program for females 12 – 17 years that have been court ordered out of their homes. We provide a homelike environment while teaching them life can be much more positive than they are used to living. We are run by a 21 member Board of Directors composed of community members who share a positive vision for these young women. We are licensed by the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Monitored by the Fort Smith Fire Dept and Sebastian County Health Dept. We are subcontracted through Comprehensive Juvenile Services since 1977 and a United Way Agency since 1982.

SPONSORS: UNITED WAY


Children in Crisis Arkansas’s overloaded foster care system https://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/arkansass-overloaded-foster-care-system/Content?oid=3948473

In 2007, a 10-year-old girl from Fort Smith named Ivy Brake became the responsibility of the state. Her mother, Ivy recalled, was loving, sweet and unstable. She struggled with substance abuse and chronic health issues for most of Ivy's childhood. She periodically got clean — once for a year — until, when Ivy was 10, an old boyfriend returned, and her mother started using again. Ivy and her 12-year-old sister, Kristin, left to stay with a relative, but soon after they arrived, the police showed up, asking questions about their life at home.

The police, Kristin said, were going to wait for the girls' grandmother to come take them from the relative's house, but the Arkansas Department of Human Services' Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) got there first. They took the sisters to the Fort Smith Emergency Shelter, a short-term residential facility for children awaiting placement with a foster family. A juvenile court then held a probable cause hearing to determine whether the children should remain in DCFS custody.

Relatives told Ivy that her grandmother, who lived nearby, and an aunt in Texas both tried to get custody of the sisters but were told that they didn't have sufficient space and that "that wasn't what was best for our lives." Instead, Ivy began a long chain of placements in foster homes and group residential facilities:..

SpeakSoft ago

United Way = United Nations

They are United against God and humanity.

United Nations Global Sustainability Impact Institute Foundation & United Way Announce Partnership JANUARY 30 2018

Organizations to unite leaders of today and tomorrow around the Global Sustainable Development Goals

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 26, 2018 - Companies, Governments and NGOs urgently need trusted metrics and relevant indices to understand and drive progress toward implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The 17 SDGs include economic, nutritional, health and education-related goals aimed at helping to build a better society. At the same time, the next generation urgently needs to be included in the global dialogue about how to achieve SDG implementation. Today, the United Nations Global Sustainability Index Institute Foundation (UNGSII Foundation) and United Way announce a new strategic partnership for SDG implementation that creates synergies reaching both goals.

neptunium1 ago

Thank you. I missed that. We need to delve further into this.