Announcements

Movers and Shakers: New Job for Former Board President Sam Smalls

By Alternative Family Services / March 22, 2021
Samuel L. Smalls, our longtime Board of Director member and past President of the Board has a new gig!

Samuel L. Smalls, current longtime member of the AFS Board of Directors and past President of the Board has a new gig! He is now the Treasury and Debt Section…

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Alternative Family Services Wins the Council on Accreditation’s 2020 Innovative Practices Award

By Alternative Family Services / December 8, 2020
AFS Enhanced Visitation Model 2020

The award celebrates AFS’s Enhanced Visitation Model as an example of COVID-19 innovation in the human services field. December 9, 2020 – Santa Rosa, CA – Alternative Family Services (AFS)…

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Foster Care Amid Coronavirus: How AFS Continues Critical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Alternative Family Services / April 7, 2020
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The ongoing spread of novel coronavirus is impacting all of us, and the COVID-19 pandemic is especially effecting the foster care and child welfare system. As youth continue to be…

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Alternative Family Services Officially Reaccredited by Council on Accredidation

By Alternative Family Services / September 28, 2019
AFS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2019 Contact Jennifer Harper Phone 510-759-1271 Email info@afs4kids.org Website www.afs4kids.org   Santa Rosa, CA, September 26, 2019 – Alternative Family Services (AFS) is proud to…

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Faith Battles Awarded First Ever AFS Children’s Guardian Award for Lifetime of Service

By Alternative Family Services / February 6, 2019
Faith Battles

Award to be Presented at AFS 40th Anniversary Gala February 28    Santa Rosa, CA, February 5, 2019 – Alternative Family Services (AFS) is proud to announce that Faith M. Battles, MSW, former AFS case…

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Celebrating 40 Years of Helping Children and Communities: AFS Reaches a Milestone Anniversary

By Alternative Family Services / August 17, 2018

The world was much different place back in 1978. Disco was still popular, Animal House was showing in theaters, and you only needed $160 to rent a studio in San…

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