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National Foster Care Month is celebrated each May to acknowledge those who play an integral role in helping children and youth in foster care find stable, temporary and nurturing homes.
Foster parents, family members, child welfare professionals, policymakers and other members of the community play an important role in ensuring that children and youth in foster care are kept safe from further trauma and are assisted in their transition to permanency.
We also use this month to renew our commitment to ensuring the success of the 7,484 children and youth currently in foster care in Iowa, according to the Department of Human Services’ Child Welfare Placement Summary.
A Vertical Access technician performs an up-close investigation.
Mark Danielson has dangled from stone turrets hundreds of feet in the air and watched peregrine falcons dive off the tops of skyscrapers as he stood on a swing stage, secured by ropes and anchors that he installed himself. While these feats might sound thrill-seeking, they’re all in a day’s work for the high-elevation building inspectors and rope access technicians that keep Chicago’s buildings safe.
Nowadays, most yearly inspections take place on the ground outside the building, with teams using high-powered binoculars and drones to search for flaws in a structure’s exterior. But every few years, Chicago buildings are required to undergo hands-on inspections. The structural engineers and inspectors who clamber over the roofs, facades and crenellations of the city’s architectural masterpieces say there’s no better way to gauge a building’s health than to get up close and personal.