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Each year, NAFI recognizes and celebrates employees for the outstanding work they do in providing the highest level of innovative human and social services to individuals and families. Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, recently announced this year’s award winners. (Also see the stories on the Rhode Island winners and […]

NAFI Connecticut, Inc. has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2022 honor by The Hearst Connecticut Top Workplaces. NAFI CT Executive Director Lynn Bishop and her leadership team also guide operations in Rhode Island and New York, and staff from across the cluster participated in the survey that led to the Top Workplaces honor for NAFI CT. The list of winners […]

The NAFI Connecticut, Inc., NAFI Rhode Island, and NAFI New York community recently honored the 2021 Spirit of the Community Award winners as part of a virtual Town Hall meeting. Joseph Matcham, a foster care Independent Living Specialist for NAFI NY, received a Spirit of the Community Award “for all that we love about you.” […]

Editor’s Note: Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, shared this end of the year holiday message with colleagues, and we would like to share it with you. Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and joyful holidays and a hopeful 2022! Dear colleagues of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York: […]

Each year, NAFI recognizes and celebrates employees for the outstanding work they do in providing the highest level of innovative human and social services to individuals and families. Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, recently announced this year’s award winners. (Also see the stories on the Connecticut awards and Rhode Island honors.) […]

NAFI New York recently received 25 duffle bags and 23 supply-filled backpacks for youth in its foster care program from the nonprofit organization Comfort Cases, founded by Rob Scheer, who was given a trash bag to take his belongings to a foster home at the age of 12. The duffle bags are empty vessels for belongings […]

NAFI New York has partnered with the mission driven technology company Binti to launch a simple online application process for prospective foster parents. “Binti builds modern software with the goal of helping every child have a family,” the company website explains. “400,000 children are currently in foster care in the U.S. and millions are in orphanages around the […]

Upcoming orientation events are scheduled for those wishing to join the ranks of NAFI New York’s foster families. The dates are: March 16, 5:30 to 6:30 April 13, 5:30 to 6:30 May 17, 5:30 to 6:30 June 15, 5:30 to 6:30 Participants in the orientation sessions will begin the process of discovering what it takes, […]

NAFI New York will hold an online open house Jan. 7 for prospective foster families, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Click the link below to join the open house: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83659304187?pwd=RHVPcXA3S2NpWkMzMlVhNzRENlpMZz09 Shawn White, our Home Finding Supervisor, will lead the open house with the assistance of Fay Williams of the Wraparound Program. “The open house will […]

 NAFI celebrates the amazing work its employees do for their communities in an awards ceremony each year recognizing those who go above and beyond the call of duty. This year, the ceremony had to be conducted remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. NAFI’s Normative Community Approach creates a culture where people work together to achieve […]

Dear NAFI/NFI staff and family: As a very challenging 2020 comes to an end, let our holiday season be filled with gratitude for the extraordinary commitment and work you have done to ensure the wellbeing of consumers — and each other. You have taken on the added demands of the pandemic in ways that we couldn’t […]

Editor’s Note: Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, shared the following end of the year holiday message with colleagues, and we would like to share it with you. Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and joyful holidays and a hopeful and prosperous 2021!   Dear colleagues of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode […]

NAFI staff members in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have a tradition of sharing “gratitude grams” with one another each year during the Thanksgiving season. We highlight the messages of appreciation on social media, and this year we began sharing some of them on the website, too. Here’s the second batch, and make sure […]

Carnevale Project Turkey has been a holiday tradition for nearly 30 years and NAFI staff and volunteers in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York navigated the challenges of COVID-19 this year to make sure families received the extra boost they needed to make the holiday special. In Rhode Island, where Carnevale Project Turkey originated, NAFI […]

Each year, during the Thanksgiving season, we invite our employees to share “gratitude grams” with one another. These messages of appreciation provide a glimpse into the incredible support and commitment our employees demonstrate all year long in carrying out the vital and vibrant human services mission of the NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and […]

As we navigate the crisis created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it’s vitally  important to stay connected, to create a sense of unity even amid the challenges of social distancing—and to interact in online forums like this one as a community of compassionate, caring citizens with the common goal of making the world around us […]

Christopher Watson, the Business Manager for NAFI New York, received the 2019 Spirit of the Community award for New York at the North American Family Institute’s recent annual conference. In giving out the annual awards, attributes of winners were described before their names where revealed. “This individual is a real team player. He/she comes to work […]