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What is a Resource Parent?

A resource parent, or resource family, is the new umbrella term used in the state of California to refer to adoptive or foster parents and many other types of out-of-home caregivers. A resource parent is trained and approved to provide foster and adoptive care to...

Doing Whatever It Takes: The Impact of Our Transition to Telehealth

Today’s post is co-authored by Jess Steele, Director of Outcomes and Evaluation, and Dan Lakin, Outcomes and Evaluation Clinical Manager, at Uplift Family Services. Their roles are to support data collection, entry, and reporting agency-wide, in addition to working...

Lionhearted – Hip Hop and Healing

Volume 5 • Issue 8 • August 2020 Uplift Family Services is a trauma-informed agency, providing whole person care through resilience-oriented, data-driven, culturally sensitive services. We believe in the power of staff investment, advocacy and collaboration as we...

Lionhearted – Trauma-Informed Leadership

Volume 5 • Issue 7 • July 2020 Uplift Family Services is a trauma-informed agency, providing whole person care through resilience-oriented, data-driven, culturally sensitive services. We believe in the power of staff investment, advocacy and collaboration as we...

Whatever It Takes: Making a More Inclusive Agency

Today’s post is written by Kelly Fitzgerald, a Quality Assurance Analyst with Uplift Family Services. Her role, based out of our Sacramento office, includes ensuring that all agency programs, policies and procedures, and workspaces offer a welcoming, inclusive...

Foster a Child or Teen This Father’s Day

Father’s Day is a time to remember and celebrate the fathers, father figures, grandfathers, and other role models who have helped shape our lives. It is a day to say thank you to those who have supported us and taught us many of the important life lessons we still...