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The CALL

Youth Services Insider

4/1/2019

Hard to Argue a Need for Faith-Based Protection Bill in Arkansas

John Kelly

A central argument used by proponents of faith-based child welfare protection bills, which allow religious providers to selectively serve some foster and adoptive parents and not others, is its impact on supply.

4/12/2018

Kansas Dials Up The CALL for Help with Faith-Based Foster Recruitment

John Kelly

The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) is putting its faith in an Arkansas-based recruitment organization to help bring in more foster families. DCF is working with The CALL, a Christian organization that takes no state money but is credited with supplying nearly half of foster homes in Arkansas, to establish a comparable initiative in the Sunflower State.

Lauri Currier, CEO of The CALL

11/28/2017

In Arkansas, One Faith-Based Group Recruits Almost Half of Foster Homes

Benjamin Hardy

When Ashley and John Herring of Heber Springs, Ark., decided to become foster parents in 2009, they were told there were just four foster homes in Cleburne County. Children taken into state custody in this rural county in the Ozark foothills were often sent to homes or short-term placements in other communities, sometimes hours away.

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