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In the Next 30 days...
August 5th &
19th - FREE
Information Meeting on foster parenting, mentoring and
the other services provided by CCSI. For more
information or to RSVP call John
August 12th - FREE Foster Parent Training "Preparing for School"
learn what every foster parent needs to know about the
education system and foster care. 6PM at University
Baptist Church Lecture Hall.
Call John to RSVP
Mentor Training on everything from how to build a rapport with your
mentee to how to maneuver them through life's most difficult
challenges. For more information or to schedule your
training call Jessica
For information on any of the
events listed above please contact our office at 661/326-8304
Covenant News
United Way Grants Covenant CARENET $10,000
Immediate Need for Volunteer Mentors
Covenant Community Services Receives $5000 Grant
Local
Foster Care News
Kids Have a Right to Attend Court Hearings
Impacting Their Lives
Fresno Bee - July 2008
Zairon Frazier, who landed in
California's foster care system because of neglect and abuse,
can claim a major victory.
National Foster
Care, Family & Emancipated Youth News
"Death by Chocolate" Brings Life to Foster
Kids' Camp
Ventura County Star - April
2008
Once again, Royal Family
Kids' Camps will be hosting an amazing fundraiser! Although
they've sold tamales by the hundreds in years past, this year's
event is called "Death by Chocolate."
Oxnard PD: Student Dies After Classroom
Shooting
MSNBC - February 2008
Oxnard police said Wednesday that a
15-year-old boy who was shot in the head Tuesday at E.O. Green
Junior High School in Oxnard has died...
Powerful CASA video
Don't cut foster care
San Bernardino County Sun -
February 2008
Last
October, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stated: "Every child
deserves to grow up in a safe, stable and permanent home,
surrounded by the nurturing influence of family and friends. It
is California's goal to ensure that this happens for all our
young people and especially those in foster care."...
Wanted: Good homes for older kids
USA Today - January 2008
Michael, 15, is a quiet boy who enjoys board games. He
says ideally he would like a mother, father and siblings...
Child Abuse and Neglect Cost Nation Over
$100 Billion Per Year
Earthtime.org - January 2008
An economic impact analysis released today
estimates the costs of child abuse and neglect to society were
nearly $104 billion last year...
Sade's story: An update
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
I thought that now, I'm out of [foster
care] and I'm not a kid anymore, so I should be
past those feelings. I guess I was lying to myself.
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More
support needed past age 18 for youths too old for
foster care
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Between 60 to 80 teenagers grow out of the state
foster care
system annually. There is extended support and mentoring
available already, but the outlook
...
Bill aims to ease aging transition out of
foster care
The Post Online - Athens,OH,USA
The
Foster Care
Continuing Opportunities Act, which was introduced in May by
California Sen. Barbara Boxer and is still being considered
in committee, ...
See all stories on this topic
A better send-off for
foster care kids
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
In that context, it's hard to imagine the utter aloneness of
the 24000 teenagers who age out of the
foster care
system each year with nowhere to go and no
...
See all stories on this topic
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Our
Services
Foster
Care Services
Faith-Based
Community Services
The
Jeremiah Mentoring Project
CARENET
Family Preservation Services
Family
Support Services
Consulting
Service
Covenant Vision
We envision
a future where every foster child lives in emotional, physical,
relational and spiritual wholeness thereby ending the cycle of
abuse and neglect in our community.
Our
Mission
Providing hope and love to
abused and neglected children
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Randy Martin, CEO and Jim Towey, White House Deputy Assistant to
the President and Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives at an event in Washington D.C.
Randy Martin, CEO and Senator Rick Santorum at a Faith-Based
Conference with We Care America.
Randy Martin and Wade
Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy and Mayor Harvey Hall presenting
proclamations to Randy and Kim Martin, the founders of Covenant
Community Services and Directors of RFKC.
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