Where can Utah families turn for support when mom, dad or other caregiver dies?
This week, Utah took a significant step towards assisting children who have lost a parent or caregiver in announcing a new initiative, The Utah Children’s Collaborative, that builds on community partnerships to identify and support bereaved children.
The program will be supported by a $1 million grant by New York Life Foundation, an organization that has invested more than $70 million into supporting bereaved children in the last 12 years, according to the foundation's president.
The collaborative will also work with the University of Utah’s Gardner Policy Institute to match birth records with death records of those who have children under 18 years old and then offer resources to families.
Fourteen years, 100 drafts and 180,000 words later, writer-historians Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown's “Vengeance is Mine; The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath" officially released this weekend.
Turley and Brown, both Latter-day Saints, poured over mountains of journals, newspaper articles, trial transcripts and other historical records, and personally traveled to virtually every place mentioned in the book. They also had unfettered access to the archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to aid them in their research.
“We didn’t know what the end was going to be from the beginning; we entered with the attitude of let the chips fall where they may, no matter who they hit," Turley said.
Read more about the authors and their findings on the massacre.
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