Intensive In-Home Services Program Offers a Helping Hand to Stroke Survivor
30 August 2023
When Tara experienced her first stroke in March 2022, she was in her 17th year of teaching young children how to read. As a literacy specialist for K-6th graders, she drew on her love of writing to help kids overcome their challenges in the classroom – and she loved her...
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Foster Care Isn’t Perfect: Retired Doctor Shares the Joys and Challenges of Fostering Adolescent Boys
03 August 2023
When Timothy Murphy, MD, decided to become a foster parent, he knew that he wanted to provide a home for adolescent boys. It wasn’t just because teenagers, especially teenage boys, are disproportionately represented in the U.S. foster care system, and he wanted to fill a need. Tim chose to foster adolescent...
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Collaborative Care Makes a Transformative Difference at the Ozanam Campus Day Treatment School
25 July 2023
For nearly 50 years, the Ozanam Campus Day Treatment School has been doing things differently to address its students’ unique behavioral and academic challenges. Located on the southern edge of Kansas City, Missouri, the school provides individualized curriculum, small class sizes, and therapeutic support for students in grades 6-12 who have...
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Getting Real About Workplace Boundaries: A Three-Part Series
18 July 2023
Part One – Work/Home Life Boundaries Like many of us, Cornerstones of Care’s Human Resources Manager Reza Soleymani-Alizadeh used to be pretty lousy at setting boundaries around work. “I was putting in overtime and talking about it proudly,” said Reza. “I was staying up until 10 p.m. doing work and checking emails,...
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Team Member Profile: Is There Anything Lea Loudon Can’t Do
20 June 2023
Lea Loudon has made serving others an essential part of her professional life. In May, she began a new role as Community Engagement Manager with the 10-member Development Team, a people-focused position that complements her depth of industry knowledge. Lea has worked at Cornerstones of Care for ten years, most recently as...
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Expressive Therapy Uses Art to Overcome Trauma
13 June 2023
It’s the final week of the spring semester at the Ozanam Campus. In the expressive therapy sessions, therapists and youth are straddling between finishing projects before the semester ends and making plans for the summer. Several youth are working diligently to complete art, music, and movement therapy projects, some of them...
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Foster Parents Find ‘Beautiful Chaos’ in the Joys and Challenges of Foster Care
09 June 2023
Courtney Morgan-Roberts was boarding a plane to California in early January for a work trip when she received a congratulatory email announcing that she and her partner, Brittany were officially licensed as foster parents. A few hours later, the plane landed on the west coast, and Courtney checked her phone again....
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Cornerstones of Care Champions Seek Young Professionals Ready to Make a Difference
24 May 2023
The next Champions quarterly happy hour is Thursday, June 1, at Brookside Barrio. Those interested in joining the group are invited to stop by between 5:00-7:00 p.m. to meet other Cornerstones of Care Champions and learn more about how to get involved. Friends, family members, and colleagues are welcome to...
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