Youth and families department articles
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‘Shelbourne really has held our family together. Families come and go in football terms, but Shels is a family. The league is a family’
Brothers Eric and Maurice Frazer gaze out across Tolka Park as the groundsman is putting the finishing touches to the pitch. It’s Friday night, it’s Shelbourne against St Patrick’s Athletic and a big derby awaits on Dublin’s northside.
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After SIV rejection, family reunites and discovers State Department failure
The following is part of a series about how the State Department age determinations for a special immigrant visa applicant’s son put him in needless peril for six years. In 2018, a U.S. consular officer told special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami that he would have to leave his adult son Waheed in Afghanistan if […]
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Colorado Department of Human Services honors Dacono family for fostering five siblings
When five siblings needed a safe place to go, Jennifer and Stacy Gardiner of Dacono didn’t hesitate to open their doors to the children they previously called neighbors.