Nicolas Allion is an Eligibility Specialist at Firefly Children and Family Alliance, where he helps low-income households apply for childcare vouchers and navigate the CCDF policy manual: a job that requires quite a bit of juggling. On top of managing his work at...
March is National Social Worker Month! đź‘Ź We would like to recognize the exceptional social workers on our team who consistently support and empower our clients. Social workers excel in not only identifying and analyzing issues, but also in effectively resolving...
For Tierra Ruffin, Firefly’s Director of Intervention Services for Region 9, Black History Month holds great significance: the imparting of valuable lessons, the cultivation of knowledge, and triumph over adversity.  Tierra openly acknowledges that it also...
October was first declared as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1989. Since then, October has been a time to acknowledge and be a voice for survivors. Domestic Violence does NOT discriminate. It affects… 1/4 women  1/7 men  43.8% of lesbian women...
So one thing I have touched on previously, but not really delved into is walking alongside a child who has experienced trauma through the death of a loved one. Now, to be clear, I’m not walking that path fully yet, but I am about to. My grandmother, who turned 100...
 Doris always wanted to pursue fostering and adoption. In 1994, after marrying her late husband who was deaf, adoption was their first choice before a natural pregnancy. Though Doris and her husband’s mission was to adopt deaf children, there was always the...
