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Child Sex Trafficking – The Movie
Scene I: Present day - Your neighborhood, a house on your street: Fourteen- year-old Ashley sneaks out of the house. She’s afraid the next beating from her father will break her bones, even though he’s convinced her it’s her own fault. She’s too afraid to tell anyone...
Child Abuse and Gay Pride Month
In 1970, one year after the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York, June was designated Gay Pride Month. June is a time to recognize all the positive influence the LGBTQ has had around the world, and society has come a long way in the last 50 years. But not...
Welcome Lisa Geirlach!
Shelter is very excited to welcome our new Accounting Manager, Lisa Geirlach, who adds even more sunshine to our administrative offices. Lisa was born and raised in the Chicago area, before moving to Michigan. Her education has been diverse, first earning her BA in...
What’s the Big Deal with National Foster Care Month?
For the month of May, sandwiched between National Asparagus Month and Salsa Month on nationaldaycalendar.com is National Foster Care Month. All 38 causes listed were published equally, so why pay attention to Foster Care in particular? Since the last report, neither...
The Legacy of AJ Freund
Written by Pat Cinquini Shock waves spread across the nation when the body of five-year-old AJ Freund of Crystal Lake, IL was found in a shallow grave April 24th five days after his father reported him missing. AJ’s parents were charged with his murder for torturing...
Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Between the 1960s and 1980s, public service announcements on television would ask at 10 pm when curfew began, “Do you know where your children are?” Today, a more appropriate announcement would be “It’s April. Do you know where your children are?” In 2016, studies...
Turning Northwest Suburban Gardens Blue
Throughout the month of April, the northwest suburbs will be dotted with Blue Pinwheel Gardens in support of National Child Abuse Prevention Month with Shelter, Inc.’s child abuse prevention program Healthy Families leading the way. April was proclaimed the National...
International Cooperation for Foster Care
Last week Shelter was proud to welcome India’s leading foster care advocate Vasundhra Sharma who was here on a “how-to” mission for her country where foster care was previously unheard of. Vasundhra, who is an attorney with a Ph.D. in Institutional Care, first heard...
National Social Worker Month
How the Cambridge Dictionary Messed Up social worker noun US /ˈsoʊ·ʃəl ˌwɜr·kər/ a person who is trained to help people who are at a mental, physical, economic, or social disadvantage - The Cambridge Dictionary Because March is National Social Worker Month, you...