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• Staff

  Rachael Deane, Chief Executive Officer (she/her/hers) Rachael Deane is the Chief Executive Officer at Voices for Virginia’s Children. She provides overall strategic and operational leadership for Voices’ staff, programs, and…

• Update on Foster Care, Senate/House Budget Results

  This year we find ourselves in a remarkably similar position to where we were last year, with regard to our advocacy around extending foster care supports and adoption assistance for…

• SJ 47 Workgroup Takes Up Children’s Mental Health

  As a result of the tragedy involving Sen. Creigh Deeds and his family in laste 2013, the 2014 General Assembly passed SJ 47 to create a Joint Subcommittee Studying Mental…

• Success! Va. will extend foster care supports to age 21

  Although the 2014 legislative session became notorious mostly for larger budget woes and the struggle to close the coverage gap for the 400,000 Virginians who currently lack health care coverage,…

• Campaign coordinator to speak at Williamsburg Symposium April 18

  Together We Can…Creating a Caring Community For Our Children Campaign Coordinator Margaret Nimmo Crowe is pleased to be the keynote speaker at this exciting conference about children’s mental health. Please…

• New Report: VA CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY

  Voices/KIDS COUNT has a new report “Virginia Children in Poverty: 2006-2010”. Growing up in poverty puts children at risk of a host of negative outcomes. Children from poor and low-income…

• Voices Champions Juvenile Justice Re-entry Bill for Former Foster Youth

  During the 2013 General Assembly session, Voices is leading an effort to provide critical re-entry services to former foster youth who enter the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), but turn…

• Stressed to the breaking point

  The following blog post was written by Margaret Nimmo Crowe, Campaign Coordinator, for the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s blog, Pundits’ Podium. Consider the stress you would feel as the parent of an…

• The Effect of Stigma

  Campaign Coordinator Margaret Nimmo Crowe’s latest blog posting on the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Pundits’ Podium: Yesterday, Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law the “EpiPen bills,” commendable legislation which requires local school…

• Call for Children’s Art!

  The Virginia Art Therapy Association and the Children’s Museum of Richmond are teaming up to highlight the need of mental health services on May 9, 2012, Children’s Mental Health Awareness…