What helps a child develop into a secure adult? For the past year,  our Post Adoption Resource Center has been exploring this question  with foster and adoptive families through a model called Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®). TBRI® explores how early life experiences affect brain development, relationships and attachment, as well as how we can…

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My wife and I (Deacons can be married before being ordinated) recently celebrated one of those parental milestone moments, our older daughter graduated from college last month! Those are times when parents often reminisce about when their child was younger. (For my daughter’s sake, I won’t share any embarrassing childhood events.) But thinking back to…

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Season 4 at the La Crosse Warming Center is done. March 14 was our last night of the winter season. Any season we can provide 2,614 nights of shelter to 161 different men and women is a good season. A season where no one froze to death, though, is a great season. It was a…

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Exciting things are happening in Prairie du Chien! We welcomed Clarissa Oehler to our volunteer staff. She is a bilingual volunteer who is working in our Immigration Department. She just finished her sophomore year at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, majoring in Spanish and minoring in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and…

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