- Gifts to live on: Caring for children after the Maui firesby Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford on March 15, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Judi Frost is a member of the Week of Compassion Board of Stewards and a trained and experienced CDS volunteer. She deployed to Maui after the wildfires with an early CDS team to set up a center for children to be cared for while parents who have finally found some temporary shelter begin to ponder what’s next.
- Children’s Disaster Services offers series of volunteer training workshopsby Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford on March 14, 2024 at 4:11 am
Registration is now open for the Spring 2024 Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) Volunteer Training Workshops. If you have a heart for serving children and families in need following a disaster, find the schedule, cost, and a registration link at www.brethren.org/cds/training/dates.
- CDS helps care for children and families among asylum seekers in Chicago areaby Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford on November 17, 2023 at 7:03 pm
Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) deployed a team of three volunteers to Oak Park, Ill., to aid children and families among asylum seekers who have been sent to Chicago from the southern border of Texas. The team served from Monday, Nov. 6, to Thursday, Nov. 9, caring for 51 children.
- Children’s Disaster Services deploys to Lewiston, Maineby Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford on October 31, 2023 at 7:42 pm
On Oct. 28, Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) deployed a team of five Critical Response Childcare volunteers to Lewiston, Maine, in partnership with the Red Cross. This deployment was made in response to the mass shootings at two locations in Lewiston in which 18 people were killed and 13 others were injured.
- Children’s Disaster Services deploys second team to Hawaii after wildfiresby Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford on September 12, 2023 at 10:28 pm
Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) has deployed another team to Hawaii in partnership with the Red Cross. The volunteers traveled to Maui on Sept. 4-5.