The Gillettes told me that their parents had been involved, in various ways, with the civil-rights movement, and that their own commitment to issues of racial justice deepened a few years ago when, for nineteen months, they served as foster parents to a small African-American boy.
Pocahontas, representing the spirit of America, literally shields Smith from injury and serves as foster mother, protecting colonists from famine and attack, achieving mythic status as a heroic mother, and preserving, nurturing and legitimizing America as a country.
nytimes.com/topics SLIDESHOW: GRANDPARENTS FOUND Images of Hope Meadows, a shuttered Air Force base in Illinois where the elderly can join a program in which they serve as surrogate grandparents to children in foster care.
She also said the agency would immediately stop sending children to any home not licensed to serve as a foster home.
In Greene County, Judge Pulver ruled that an old criminal conviction should not automatically disqualify a man, whom he called Richard C. Benson, using a pseudonym, from continuing to serve as a foster father to three young brothers.
The 103-year-old Washington, D.C., resident and Senior Corps volunteer looks forward each morning to her trip to Sharpe Health School to serve as a Foster Grandparent and mentor to special-needs students.
(Fabaceae) to serve as a putative foster tree.
Registered dietitians serve as advocates to foster these collaborative efforts, inform key decision makers, and work in their local communities to develop and promote healthful practices in K-12 school settings.
The local production of these factors at sites of inflammation in RA joints may serve as beacons to foster B cell accumulation, proliferation, and differentiation.
