{"id":18791,"date":"2022-05-26T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2022-05-27T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:23:23","slug":"cds-team-to-uvalde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/cds-team-to-uvalde\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Disaster Services team deploys to Uvalde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of six Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS) volunteers traveled this morning to Uvalde, Texas, to provide specialized assistance to children and families impacted by the shooting. These volunteers are experienced and specially trained for critical responses that involved the loss of lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team was to assemble later today and set up a child care center in the Family Assistance Center in Uvalde, traveling at the request of partner American Red Cross. Another team of CDS volunteers is on alert to provide assistance in other locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1980 Children\u2019s Disaster Services, a program of Brethren Disaster Ministries, has been meeting the needs of children by setting up child care centers in shelters and disaster assistance centers across the nation. Specially trained to respond to traumatized children, volunteers provide a calm, safe, and reassuring presence in the midst of the chaos created by tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural or human-caused disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional information about the Critical Response Childcare Teams can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/cds\/crc\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/cds\/crc\">www.brethren.org\/cds\/crc<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of six Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS) volunteers traveled this morning to Uvalde, Texas, to provide specialized assistance to children and families impacted by the shooting. These volunteers are experienced and specially trained for critical responses that involved the loss of lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1703],"tags":[1252,456,1253,1758,457,3,1263,2437,2303,1577,2438],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-18791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-cds","tag-children","tag-childrens-disaster-services","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-peace","tag-school-shootings","tag-shootings","tag-texas","tag-uvalde"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}