Foster parents are critically needed in Milwaukee County, where at any given time about 2,000 children are in out-of-home care. So, St. Aemilian – Lakeside, a 161-year old social services agency at 89th and Capitol Drive , will hold an open house on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 4-8 p.m. to explain requirements and the many [...]

LadLake and M & I Bank work to protect local children May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and one leading Milwaukee agency has found a unique way to increase awareness of the plight of foster care youth through the Project Pinwheel campaign. With support from M & I Bank, Lad Lake continues to address the [...]

This week First Lady Jessica Doyle and Department of Children and Families Secretary Reggie Bicha recognized foster parents Scott and Paulette Drankiewwicz for their incredible commitment to the foster children in Milwaukee County by honoring them with the 2010 Governor’s Foster Care Award. “People who become foster parents do so out of love and compassion,” [...]

Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin kicks off its first annual Home Run & Walk, Covering the Bases for Foster Care, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 1, at Miller Park in Milwaukee. Peggy Troy, MSN, RN, president and CEO of Children’s Hospital and Health System, Secretary Reggie Bicha of the Department of Children and Families, and [...]