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Child Abuse in Our Midst
By Rebecca Schatt As seen in the Ocala Star Banner on April 13, 2014 Have you seen the blue and silver pinwheels spinning around Ocala? Every April, in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month, Kids Central and its partners work to plant pinwheels across Ocala and Marion County. Pinwheels serve as a reminder …
ReadHernando group searching for families to become foster parents
Kids Central’s informational event, Open Your Heart was featured in Hernando Today. Read the story at Hernando Today. Last year, 259 children in Hernando County were placed in out-of-home care after being abused, neglected or abandoned. And, for the past 23 years, hundreds of children have gone to live with Linda Hoins and her husband, …
ReadChildren Need Your Help to Make Hernando a Safe Place
Our Hernando board member, Captain Cyrus Robinson, wrote a letter to the editor of Hernando Today and it was published today. Read at Hernando Today Hernando County is a hidden treasure nestled on the Nature Coast of West Central Florida and the home of 173,000 residents. Happy thoughts and beautiful images of growing urban communities, …
ReadThe Little Things are BIG Things
You hear all the time the importance of not taking for granted what you have. Let me share a story about how the things you may consider to be little are very big to others. A Marion County grandmother recently found her four bedroom doublewide mobile home overflowing when eight of her grandchildren came to live …
ReadPaying It Forward
When Shannon Daily, house parent at the Arnette House, was teaching a Life Skills class to foster youth in the Independent Living (IL) program, she never imagined the reaction she would elicit from one of the girls. A few months before Christmas 2013, during a normal Life Skills class, Shannon taught a lesson entitled, Your …
ReadPrograms bring ‘invisible’ signs of child abuse to forefront
Published April 2, 2014 in the Ocala Star Banner. By April Warren A warm breeze swept across the grassy field outside West Marion Community Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, curling underneath the reflective petals of dozens of pinwheels and turning the green patch into a blur of blue shimmer. “We can feel the wind but we …
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