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January 2023 – Executive Director’s Report

By |2023-05-06T17:53:10-05:00February 13, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , |

February 13, 2023

From: Don Forrester LMSW, Executive Director

Topics include:

  • Legislative Updates:
    • Gaps in the 21st Century Child Welfare Model
      • A new year – A new legislative session – A new opportunity
      • Background & Current Situation
      • Qualified Residential Treatment Programs
      • Challenge Before Us
  • 2023 Membership Dues – Reminder
  • New Members Needed to Expand and Strengthen the CORE Membership
  • Save the Date
    • 2023 CORE National Conference – September 18-20
      • Pre-Conference Activities include Pow Wow on Saturday, September 16, 2023
        Tour of the Black Hills on Sunday, September 17, 2023

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Board of Directors Announces New Executive Director

By |2023-05-06T17:56:29-05:00May 11, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |

May 11, 2017

Greg McNeece, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Coalition of Residential Excellence, is pleased to announce the appointment of Don Forrester, LMSW as the new Executive Director of CORE. Don served as the immediate past Chair of the CORE Board and has a lifetime of involvement at all levels in the child welfare community. He describes himself as an old child welfare worker who at the age of twenty-three developed a passion for the work and finds that 46 ½ years later it still gives him

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