Strengthening Families Through Engagement and CollaborationMCFCS is committed to empowering families and the community to share the responsibility for protecting our children and youth. We are committed to ensuring that all children and youth receive safe and nurturing care that will enhance their development and well-being.We believe that children are best served within their own family and that parents strive to provide the best possible care to their children. All families have inner strengths and resiliency. We recognize that life circumstances and challenges can impact on family functioning and interfere with parents' abilities to meet the needs of their children in the way they hoped. It is at these times that the MCFCS Agency and the community must get involved to support families.MCFCS recognizes that being involved with child and family services is stressful and for many families involuntary. We have worked hard to modify our approach and how families experience our agency, so that despite the involuntary nature of our services, families feel respected, empowered and supported.Be a foster paren
The Friendship Circle Miami is a non-profit, community based volunteer organization dedicated to offering friendship and acceptance to children, teens, and young adults with special needs regardless of their disability while empowering teenage and young a
The Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heartand of Mary ImmaculateThe congregation was founded in 1904by Archbishop Louis-Philippe Adélard Langevin, o.m.i. The Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and of Mary Immaculate, more commonly known as The Missionary Oblates of St. Boniface, have as motto: 'Cum Maria Matre Jesu', 'With Mary the Mother of Jesus'. We are called to give preference to the most disadvantaged. After over a hundred years we still witness to the Living Christ by our dynamism and our joie de vivre.Our IdentityArchbishop Langevin had a vision, he dreamed of establishing a humble institute in his diocese, for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls especially the souls of the children; this congregation would be known as the Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate. The aim of this institute is teaching the youth and cooperating discreetly in the Catholic works of the parishes and missions...and this will be lived out in a spirit of faith, simplicity and dignity
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord). The disease attacks myelin, the protective covering of the nerves, causing inflammation and often damaging the myelin. Myelin is necessary for the transmission of nerve impulses through nerve fibres. If damage to myelin is slight, nerve impulses travel with minor interruptions; however, if damage is heavy and if scar tissue replaces the myelin, nerve impulses may be completely disrupted, and the nerve fibres themselves can be damaged.