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Optimal Hospice Care offers Pet Therapy to Animal-Loving Patients! Join the CarePals Team!
       Jacqueline, or “Jackie” for short, knows she’s beautiful.  She fully expects everyone to tell her so, and if you don’t, she’ll squint at you until you do. She has a...
Posted by rfrankhouser - Thu Jul 16, 2009 15:37:18 PDT
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For the Love of Cats - DO GOOD - HAVE FUN!
With kids home from school and everyone busy with summer activities our volunteer rate has dropped drastically. Summer is kitten season and the need for foster pet parents is critical. Adoptions are way down and our system...
Posted by catgirl - Wed Jul 8, 2009 09:34:12 PDT
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February is Have a Heart Month
Have a Heart for abused and neglected children, Have a Heart for prayer, Have a Heart for serving—these are the themes of Have a Heart Month.  Have a Heart Month began as an initiative put forth by Canyon Hills Assembly of...
Posted by adine6 - Thu Feb 5, 2009 13:53:02 PST
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Local foster care agency hosts Christmas party with a visit from "Santa"
The Positive Outlook agency hosted a special Christmas party on Friday night (December 12th) at Johns Incredible Pizza on Rosedale Hwy.  The foster children represented by the agency and their "parents"...
Posted by lynender - Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:48:25 PST
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Banners Painted For Caravan For Compassion!
It was a family event Sunday when volunteers of all ages gathered to use their artistic skills for a good cause. Twenty people put brush to canvas creating colorful banners for Saturday's Caravan For Compassion. The banners will hang on...
Posted by Kernville - Tue Nov 18, 2008 08:01:53 PST
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Bakersfield Breakfast Rotary feeds the homeless
Bakersfield Breakfast Rotary provided a hot meal for over 200 homeless people at the CHW Learning Center, 631 E. California Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 4. Bakersfield Breakfast Rotary meets on Wednesdays at 6:45 a.m. in The Petroleum Club...
Anonymous user - Fri Oct 17, 2008 14:35:28 PDT
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Kern County Animal Control Kicks Off Monthly Off-Site Adoption
Kern County Animal Control held the first of its monthly, volunteer-run, off-site adoptions on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the PETCO located at 8220 Rosedale Highway in Bakersfield.  Off-site adoptions involve taking adoptable animals...
Posted by Maggie_Kalar - Mon Oct 6, 2008 12:56:15 PDT
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600 Books Donated to At-Risk Children
 Covenant Community Services CEO Randy Martin recently spoke to teachers and staff at the South Fork Union School District about the population of children they are teaching. The audience was surprised and appalled to hear the...
Posted by adine6 - Mon Oct 6, 2008 12:25:55 PDT
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Donate items or services to families to help keep kids out of foster care
Through Covenant CARENET, Covenant Community Services provides goods and services to foster children returning home to their families.  The mission of CARENET is providing services and resources to foster children returning to their...
Posted by adine6 - Tue Jul 22, 2008 16:46:35 PDT
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Immediate Need for Volunteer Mentors
Covenant Community Services has an immediate need for volunteers who are willing to mentor former foster youth ages 17-21.  The youth are part of Covenant's transitional housing program for emancipated foster youth.  Mentors...
Posted by adine6 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 17:12:43 PST
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CASA Volunteers Needed
All children have a right to a safe home with loving people to care for them. Unfortunately, each year thousands of children in Kern County are abused, abandoned, or neglected by their families or caregivers—people who are...
Posted by korren23 - Mon Oct 1, 2007 12:14:18 PDT
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Have You Ever Wanted to Make a Difference?
Have you ever thought about how you can make a difference in our community?  There are so many children in Kern County who need support from the community to live happy, healthy and successful lives.  All Children in foster...
Posted by adine6 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 13:05:57 PDT
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Local Foster Family Agency Receives Building Blocks
Covenant Community Services Inc. (CCSI) is a non-profit, social services organization that provides therapeutic foster care, mentoring, family preservation and mental health services to foster children and their families—helping...
Posted by adine6 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 15:44:37 PDT
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Local Foster Care Agency Seeks Community Involvement
In 2005, Kern County’s Child Protective Services received over 15,000 referrals citing potential child abuse and neglect; and of those referrals 4,618 cases were substantiated, which indicates a child abuse rate of 20.7 per 1000...
Posted by adine6 - Fri Jul 13, 2007 16:01:32 PDT
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Disabled veteran has humane heart
Disabled Army veteran, Elizabeth Bart, suffered hearing loss to her left ear as a result of the constant firing noise and training of her M-16 rifle at the Army rifle range at Fort Irwin in Barstow, Calif. Subsequently, she was able...
Posted by DrMichaelNazario - Mon Apr 9, 2007 13:00:14 PDT
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Help people with Alzheimer's
I work for the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Kern County in Bakersfield. We are a nonprofit organization that specializes in taking care of the loved ones of working family members. We are here to relieve overwhelmed families having...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Apr 2, 2007 12:43:56 PDT
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