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The Mississippi Families For Kids (MFFK) is a nonprofit organization that helps care for foster children. Funds that are raised for the group go toward providing basic needs for the children and assisting them in finding a permanent home. MFFK puts extra efforts toward children that have special needs or have suffered from abuse or neglect.
The organization began in 1994 and was able to gain their start from a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. Today the group stays afloat with the help of donations from sources such as the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption the annual Children’s Golf Classic the Jackson personal injury lawyer firm Richard Schwartz & Associates and individual donations.
Along with caring for the children the group also works toward improving the adoption system and its policies. In addition they play an important part in the prevention of new families from having to enter the welfare system.
As over 50000 children in Mississippi are being raised by a grandparent or other relative MFFK also helps provide legal educational and financial support to these families through their R.O.C. (Relatives Raising Others’ Children) Program.
Other services of MFFK include family mentoring parental training anger management general counseling for all age groups lending libraries and many other programs that help build stronger more functional families and individuals.
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