September News

OK!

Our schedule has changed: as of now, the Safe Child Town Hall series is on hold.

While the participation amongst other organizations has been fantastic, and created a tremendous community resource for Tacoma and Bellevue, the events themselves have been under-attended.

When we can figure out how to get people in seats for this important topic, we'll re-schedule the Town Hall series. If you would still like one in your town or legislative district, send us an email or post here, and we'll prioritize the areas that get the most requests. So far there has been a lot of demand for Bothell and White Center/Burien.

ID Education [ideducation.net] is almost ready for use.

IDEducation.net will be a VERY basic, very accessible internet/ID safety site, largely pulling from, and referring to, expert sources like Look Both Ways and NetSmartz. This will not be cutting edge theory, this will be a tool box for folks just figuring out the many uses of the web.

We didn't get to attend the Together 2008 Reunion organized by FCAA. Heavy rain and sick kid prevented our drive to Tacoma. We hope we get another invite for next year, however. Did you attend? Tell us how it went!

Fall Schedule

We have a lot scheduled for the next few months. Check out this list, and see if there is anything in your area. If not, let us know if you'd like us to schedule something. We'll do our best.

• 9/18 - Safe Child Town Hall, Highland Middle School, Bellevue, 7-830 pm. Children Welcome
• 9/20 - Together, Reunion 2008, the Foster Care Alumni of America's first Reunion - if you are part of the foster care community, check out http://www.fostercarealumni.org/ website for more information.
• 9/25 - Safe Child Town Hall, WF West High, Chehalis, 7-830 pm. Children Welcome.
• 10/2 - Safe Child Town Hall, Bothell
• 10/3-4 - Washington State PTA Legislative Assembly
• 10/7 - Safe Child Town Hall, Richland
• 10/23 - Safe Child Town Hall, Sedro Woolley
• 11/6 - Safe Child Town Hall, Spokane

Somewhere in there we're going to try and fit a Safe Child town hall for the White Center area. We hope to see you over the next few months of Town Halls. Come and say 'Hi' if you're able to attend! They're all child-friendly, and we need volunteers to help coordinate!

Foster Care Alumni of America

This morning I opened up outlook and was pleased to see an evite - I'm a social girl, I like parties.

This is an incredibly cool party. Maybe one of the coolest parties ever. The evite was from FCAA - the Foster Care Alumni of America, for their first Reunion.

I'm going, and I'm taking my family.

What makes a family? What makes a community? Shared experience, support, and the will to work together through the conflicts and joys of life.

When something is broken, you work to fix it. When you do not have what you need, you work to get it. When you believe something, you do it. That is what the FCAA is doing, and I am so pleased and impressed.