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July 10, 2015
Advocacy, Healthy Louisiana, Louisiana Children in Crisis

Louisiana Still Needs Therapeutic Group Homes for Children

7/10/2015 – A year has passed since the June 2014 release of the advocacy paper, “Louisiana’s Children are Being Placed… Read More


March 17, 2014
Children and Trauma

Perfecting Residential Care

During this past year we cared for 247 children who could not receive the residential care they needed elsewhere. Children… Read More


April 6, 2013
Healthy Louisiana, Therapeutic Group Home

If Residential Care were a Swimming Pool

Simple analogies often make obvious what complexity obscures. While speaking to our Board of Directors this week, it struck me… Read More


January 13, 2013
Children and Trauma, Louisiana Methodist Children's Home

Traumatic Childhood Events

Last week I sat quietly listening to our admissions team as they reviewed children’s applications for admission into our care…. Read More


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