{"id":10550,"date":"2015-10-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:05:39","slug":"childrens-disaster-services-california-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2015\/childrens-disaster-services-california-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Disaster Services Cares for Families Affected by California Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of CDS<\/small>
A child receives care at the CDS center.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur California team has cared for over 218 children in Calistoga, Calif., in response to the wildfires,\u201d reports Children\u2019s Disaster Services associate director Kathy Fry-Miller. \u201cThey are serving at a Local Assistance Center for families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS) program, which is a part of Brethren Disaster Ministries, offers care for children and families affected by disasters. The CDS volunteers, who are trained and certified, serve in cooperation with FEMA and the American Red Cross, working to set up child care centers in shelters and assistance centers.<\/p>\n

One of the CDS volunteers currently serving in California shared, \u201cWe have had two boys come in for the past few days. While chatting with the dad he told me the other services in the area didn’t matter. We [Children’s Disaster Services] were what mattered to him and the families.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe thanked us for being so safe. He was just overjoyed to have us here. He said all the families were talking about us and how happy the kids are when they leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fry-Miller noted in her brief e-mail report from the response in Calistoga, that \u201cthe children’s needs are being attended to, and they are feeling well cared for in the midst of the chaos of their difficult situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about the work of Children\u2019s Disaster Services go to www.brethren.org\/cds<\/a> . To support this work financially give to the Emergency Disaster Fund at www.brethren.org\/edf<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur California team has cared for over 218 children in Calistoga, Calif., in response to the wildfires,\u201d reports Children\u2019s Disaster Services associate director Kathy Fry-Miller. \u201cThey are serving at a Local Assistance Center for families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[456,1253],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-cds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12889,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/12889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}