Housing for children awaiting foster families breaks ground in Memphis
Isaiah 117 House, a Tennessee-based nonprofit that provides homes for children awaiting foster care, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new location on Colonial Road on Monday, March 4. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Isaiah 117 House, a nonprofit that provides a comfortable environment for youth waiting on a foster family placement, opens its first location in Shelby County, where more than 1,000 children are in state custody.
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Foster Care Tennessee Department of Children’s Services Isaiah 117 HouseAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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