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Advocate for Adoption Competency

Heart in Hands adoption competency

  Family relationships can be complicated. Families that come together through foster care, guardianship and adoption often experience added layers of complexity. One constant for all these families is the experience of loss. For some children and their parents and caregivers, these losses loom large, creating significant challenges. Families often …

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Park School

Founded in 1912, The Park School of Baltimore is an independent, gender-inclusive, non-sectarian progressive Pre-K through 12 school located on a 100-acre wooded campus minutes from the city. To get to know Park, talk to a student, engage a faculty member, follow the paths of its alumni, and consider the …

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Community-Minded Kids: Tyler Stallings

Tyler Stallings Charitable children

    Even the Very Young Can Help Veterans Sometimes it’s hard to believe the words coming out of Tyler Stallings’ mouth are from a 10-year-old child. “Basically, when I was 4, I had a very real awakening to what veterans had to go through when they got out of …

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Bullying: Know the Signs and How to Prevent It

Bullying Inside a Classroom

  October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and the issue of bullying—both at school and through cyberspaces—continues to negatively affect the lives of children in many ways. “I think bullying has been thought of as something that happens in childhood, in that it’s something that all kids go through, and …

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