Foster Parent Training Aids 1749 Iowa Families
The Is required Parents Association provides most foster and adoptive training across Iowa. Executive Director Lyndon Stout says the training fills a great need, offering year round seminars on topics like fetal alcohol syndrome and transracial parenting. Trainees pick sessions to meet six to 12 hours annually, atop licensing checks and interviews.
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Parents Association
Iowa
Lyndon Stout
Iowa City
Johnson County
Deb Minot
Konigsmarks
Relationship of birth and foster parents in reunification
Heather Craig-Oldson urged Iowa foster and adoptive leaders to build trust between birth and foster parents as key to reunifying families. She cited birth parents who credit foster families for progress and warned against agency focus on problems over people.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Heather Craig-Oldson
Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association
Craig Oldson
Child Welfare Institute
Atlanta
Notable historical events from March through 1963
The entry lists key dates and events: the 1770 Boston Massacre with five deaths, Zachary Taylor's 1849 oath, the 1868 Johnson impeachment court, the 1933 Nazi vote share and Reichstag lift, Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech, Stalin’s 1953 death, and a 1963 private plane crash near Camden, Tennessee killing country musicians.
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Boston
Zachary Taylor
Senate
Andrew Johnson
Winston Churchill
Westminster College
Fulton
Josef Stalin
Camden
Tenn
Iowa lawmakers enter tough talks over budget and spending cuts
GOP leaders and Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack begin face-to-face talks on ways to trim up to 35 million in current-year spending as budget plans for 2002 may face at least 200 million in reductions. Confidence is low amid slowing revenue and looming reapportionment shaping 2002 Iowa politics.
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GOP
Tom Vilsack
Siegrist
Dick Myers
Iowa City
House
General Assembly
Iowa
Myers
Wards closed leaving staff to seek new jobs in town
Waldrop searched for a compatible remote control as Montgomery Ward shoppers hunted bargains. About 90 employees faced closure in Iowa's last Wards, with some moving to other employers like Younkers and Chick fil A while others awaited job hunts and a store auction of fixtures. Former workers recall loyal customers and the shift to online and mega stores.
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Waldrop
Ron Laird
Montgomery Ward
Laird
Bowen
Younkers
Chickfil-A
Wards
Iowa
Huddleston
Smulekoff's
Steve Kranz
Coe College
Kranz
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Bill
Becky Konigsmark
GazetteOnline
Bill Konigsmark
Konigsmark
State Department of Human Services
Linn
Jones
Cedar
Johnson
Muscatine
Erin Walter
Julie Agena
By Todd Ruger
Craig Oldsen
Patsy Cline
Cowboy
Copas
Hawkshaw
Hawkins
John Belushi
Hollywood
Iraq
Kuwait
The
Red Cross
Israel
South
Lebanon
State Department of Economic Development
Vilsack
Statehouse
David Brasher
Cindy Hadish
Indyh
Tim Bowen
Nextel
Nextel Online
Nextel.com
Motorola, Inc
Nextel Sales Office
Sherman
Hiawatha
BDI Wireless
3Rd Ave
Cedar Rapids
East Benton St
Electronic Engineering
6Th St
RP Communications
Lindale Mall
Unicorn Wireless
Clocktower Plaza
Coralville
Direct Connect
Nextel Direct Connect
Nextel Communications, Inc
Nextel Communications Inc
Motorola
U.S. Pat. & Tm
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