News & Library

Keep up with the latest news about Firefly Children and Family Alliance, from recent announcements to new programs and services

Autism Acceptance Month: Nicolas Allion

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...

Celebrating Social Worker Month!

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...

DVAM Feature: Hospital Response Volunteer LeAnna

LeAnna started training as a Hospital Response volunteer with Firefly’s Survivor Advocacy team in late January. She takes several shifts per month being on-call to six local hospitals. As Marion County's Rape Crisis Center, Firefly has advocates like LeAnna available...

Kris’ Corner – Schooling Choices for Trauma

So if you’ve been reading my posts for a while, you probably know that I homeschool. Obviously, I understand you cannot homeschool a foster placement (except possibly in some very special exceptions), but want to just put this out there especially if you are moving...

Kris’ Corner – Foster Friendly app

So let’s take a few minutes and talk about the Foster Friendly App. Many of you might be aware of it but some of you might not. And I am embarrassed to admit that I just recently found out about it…but I am so excited to share this with you! Most of us are probably...

Kris’ Corner – Being All In on Your Child

Now you might be wondering about me, since my last post was about getting therapy for yourself…but I still believe, regardless of our need for help as parents, we can still be all in on our kids. To be the mom or dad who is all in on their kid… I never realized that’s...

Kris’ Corner – Therapy for Yourself

This post kind of dove-tails into the previous one in which I talked about our grief and loss journey. And I personally don’t think this is something talked about often enough in the foster world…and that is the idea of foster (and adoptive) parents seeking therapy...