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Article: Children's Charity Opens Doors in Alexandria to Help Provide Foster Care for Kids With Special Needs.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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To help more of the nearly 7,000 Virginia children now in foster care or on waiting lists for good, loving homes, the 127-year old children's crisis charity KidsPeace is opening a much-needed foster care and community programs center in Alexandria. Funded through a federal grant secured by Congressman Jim Moran, the new center is a proactive step in providing care to a specialized-needs group of local children who require therapeutic foster homes to overcome crises in their young lives. A citywide public service radio campaign created by KidsPeace through a grant from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation is being launched on dozens of local radio stations and is ...