Lilliput is so proud to have been selected to receive an
Adoption Excellence Award from the
Children's Bureau/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services! The Department
honors those who have demonstrated excellence in providing stable, permanent
homes for our nation’s children in foster care. Lilliput is being recognized for
the development and implementation of strategies that have achieved a
significant decrease in the average length of stay in foster care.
Lilliput's
Karen Alvord Awarded the 2011 Angel in Adoption Award
in Washington D.C.!
Karen Alvord, Executive Director
of Lilliput Children’s Services, was selected as a
2011 Angel in
Adoption Award recipient by Congresswoman Doris Matsui
in an awards presentation in Washington, D.C.
For the 3rd YEAR IN A ROW,
Lilliput Achieved 100% Employee Giving to United Way!
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Lilliput is seeking
emergency foster family homes
throughout Solano County. For more information, call 707-863-4182
or go here.
FREE Professional Training! Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) for Mental Health Professionals with an In-Depth Clinical Focus. This is for Mental Health professionals providing clinical services in Contra Costa County, Napa County, and Solano County.
There are new job openings at Lilliput! Click on
Career Opportunities for details!
Lilliput Selected as a
CFC CharityAfter a thorough application process that included meeting stringent standards and requirements, Lilliput Children's Services was selected as a CFC (Combined Federal Campaign) charity!
Lilliput was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Placer
Community Foundation. We will be hiring a 10-hour/week Parent Partner
to help us outreach and make connections within the local faith-based
community, establish support groups and trainings and create a resource guide.
We were
awarded a $1,000 mini-grant from the Soroptimist International of
Metropolitan Sacramento service club in order to purchase car
seats for Kinnections families in need.
Park Terrace Swim & Tennis Club, based in Sacramento, hosted this
year’s USTA Men’s Pro Circuit event in June. We were so honored to be selected
as their nonprofit partner.
NTHS,
an honor society at Heald College, held an ice cream social fundraiser
at the college campus on 6/15 and selected Lilliput as the recipient of the
funds raised! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Thank
you Macy's for the $2,500 grant to Lilliput Children
Services! This funding will help us to provide
therapeutic Clinical Services to our kinship caregivers in Sacramento County!
The Roseville Press Tribune published a
National Adoption Day article that
featured Lilliput.
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Lilliput posts the wonderful video that was created for its 30th Anniversary
Dream Big Event. You've got to see this informative and moving production!
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Stockton
Recorder's Article about Lilliput's Adoption Workshop
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Lilliput celebrated its 30th Anniversary in a big way!
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Karen
Alvord received the Jan Stohr Nonprofit Executive of the Year Award!
Read about this prestigious
award!
Lilliput receives a $1.5 million federal grant to help hundreds of children in our communities. Lilliput will use this grant to help find and connect hundreds of foster care children with family members (kinship care) to help them find successful homes in which they can thrive instead of being passed around in the foster care system. KFBK ran two news sound bites about this grant: