We have an opportunity to participate -at a business expo -
ShowTyme Event Planning -
A Center Stage Vendor Expo
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010
Time: 3-8 p.m.
Place: Best Western Hotel & Conference Center
             8051 LBJ Freeway @ Coit
             Dallas, Texas

Please let me know if you can participate in this event. I know it is short notice, but it is a great opportunity to network with businesses and gain an opportunity for sponsorships.

If you cannot make it, please get us 100-200 flyers, brochures, business cards for your organizations.

Troubled foster children from Dallas are often shipped far from home, state official says 11:49 AM CT
12:11 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN - The most distressed foster children in state care too often are sent far from their home counties, especially if they're from North Texas, the state's top protective services official said today.
The Dallas-Fort Worth region is home to only six of the 66 residential treatment centers that are under contract with the state to care for abused and neglected youngsters, Anne Heiligenstein told a Texas House panel. .......
Currently, almost 1,600 youths - or about 10 percent of all Texas children in paid foster care - stay at residential treatment centers, Heiligenstein said.
They are "very traumatized and very ill" youngsters, she said. Some have "bounced" through dozens of foster-care placements and cycled in and out of psychiatric hospitals. ....
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