"Safe Families" Organizing in Middle Tennessee

Today, the Middle Tennessee Church Alliance met to hear Dave Anderson of Safe Families. Safe Families provides parents with safe homes to temporarily place their children in times of crisis. Too often, families are separated for long periods when families face a temporary crisis such as the loss of a home or a job. In Safe Families, the children are placed in a loving temporary home until their parents' situation stabilizes. Then the children rejoin their families without having to enter state custody and the foster care system.

This year, Safe Families will place about 2000 children in Chicago and operates in 9 other cities throughout the US. Katie Couric and CBS did a piece on Safe Families in Chicago. View it here: www.tinyurl.com/safefamilies

Bethany Christian Services has agreed to serve as the social agency and program administrator in Middle Tennessee. They will team with churches throughout the region to provide families and resources for children and families in need.

The Middle Tennessee Church Alliance meeting today was attended by representatives of 10 churches and 7 Christian organizations. The group enthusiastically endorsed the effort to start Safe Families in Middle Tennessee and agreed to re-convene in July to begin planning the start-up.

Please pray for this initiative as it will need seed funding, families and other resources for children and their families. For more information, go to http://www.safe-families.org/.