My colleagues from Project Ujima and I participated in National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, earlier this spring. A number of national events took place to let victims know what their rights are and to inspire communities to take a stance against crime victimization.

Project Ujima was invited by Wisconsin’s attorney general J.B. Van Hollen to participate in a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week ceremony at the Capitol to highlight the work we, as well as other organizations like ours do. The Project Ujima Youth Leadership Council attended the ceremony.  Following the ceremony, we were invited back to the Governor’s mansion for lunch with Wisconsin’s First Lady Jessica Doyle. We also met Governor Doyle. (more…)

Kids and parents participated in activities together at Parklawn Family Resource Center's open house.

Earlier this year, Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin and the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee began an exciting new partnership to better serve families in Milwaukee County.

Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin Parklawn Family Resource Center (formerly known as Family Resource Center of Sherman Park), Volunteer Respite, Pregnancy Counseling and Resources, and Empowering Families programs relocated to the Parklawn YMCA. Together with the YMCA, we’re providing education and support, youth development and connections to community resources for families.

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Kobi Maley

Sometimes you do things for yourself.

Sometimes you do thing for others.

And sometimes, when the stars align just right, you do something for yourself that winds up helping others in a way you’d never imagine.

That’s just what happened to me and my husband, Mark, in the summer of 2007. After talking off and on for years about becoming foster parents, we finally decided to attend an orientation meeting held by Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin.

Our initial interest in foster care came from our strong love of children. Our daughter was in her 20s and had left home years ago. We were empty-nesters and believed that bringing a young one into our home would brighten up our lives.

It did that – and so much more.

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