Feature Stories

It’s a short walk from J.T. Karaffa Elementary School to Toronto Junior and Senior High School, but it seemed like an insurmountable journey to Parker Williamson. Parker would have to make the [...]

Children can develop all of the same mental health conditions as adults, but because they’re still learning how to identify and talk about thoughts and emotions, they typically express them [...]

You are now 18.  You are on your own.  Now foster care is over and you’ve been couch-surfing for awhile and recently you’ve had a little trouble with the law.  No family.  No job.  No [...]

A growing relationship between Franklinton Preparatory Academy in Columbus and The Village Network is producing positive outcomes, and it has literally given one student a new lease on life.

Eighth grade student Coleman won first place in his school in The Village Network’s essay contest where Wayne County students were invited to submit essays about foster care. [...]

Thanks to Amazon, giving to your favorite charity is easier than ever, and it won’t cost you a penny. Amazon’s charitable arm, AmazonSmile, is a website where you can enjoy all the products and [...]

Every year, people from around the world take a day to give back. #GivingTuesday has become a global day of giving that connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations for a [...]

The Village Network recently hired a new day treatment program supervisor at its Wooster, Ohio location to continue to build a community that rallies behind our youth and works together to meet [...]

After more than 50 years of dodge ball tournaments, exercise classes and pickup games, The Village Network plans to demolish and reconstruct the Boys’ Village gym to build a more functional, [...]

And so it begins. Tax free weekends. Homeroom assignments. 50-cent glue sticks. And of course, everyone is at the store for hours searching for that oddly specific magenta folder, which doesn’t [...]