title: Congregate care
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Wendy Thomas
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
Wendy's Wonderful Kids
Utah Foster Care
Raise A Child Inc.
Adoption-Friendly Workplace
Rachel Ewald
Foster Care Independence Act
sentences: Congregate care is a placement setting that consists of 24-hour supervision for children in highly structured settings such as group homes, childcare institutions, residential treatment facilities, or maternity homes.
 Such settings must be a licensed or approved home or facility that can take in 7-12 children, as seen in group homes, or 12 or more children, as seen in institutions.
 Fourteen is the average age of children who enter into congregate care.
 In the United States out of the 400,000 children in the foster care system around 55,000 live in congregate care settings.
 In the United States in 2013 there was 55,916 children in congregate care.
 In the last ten years, there has been a 37% decrease in the number of children in congregate care, which is greater than the overall 21% drop in number of children in the foster care system.
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding adoptive homes for children waiting in North America’s foster care system.
 Created in 1992 by Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, who was adopted as a child, the Foundation works to provide grants to national and regional adoption organizations for programs that raise awareness and make adoption easier and more affordable.
 Thomas' daughter Wendy serves on the foundation's board of trustees.
Melinda Lou "Wendy" Morse (née Thomas; born September 14, 1961) is the daughter and fourth child of American businessman Dave Thomas, the founder of the fast food brand Wendy's.
 Morse is best known for being the namesake and mascot of the brand.
 She uses the name Wendy Thomas in her role as a spokesperson for Wendy's.
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is an American non-partisan, non-profit organization "dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands of orphans and foster children in the United States and the millions of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes through adoption; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right of a family."
 CCAI seeks to educate and inform Members of Congress in adoption, foster care, and child welfare issues that affect their constituents.
 This is done through congressional briefings, leadership training programs, educational trips, and other notable programs.
 The Institute's work is entirely funded by donations and gifts from organizations and individuals like the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Wendy's Wonderful Kids combines the fundraising strengths of Wendy's restaurants and its customers, aggressive grants management of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the talent of experienced adoption recruiters throughout the nation and Canada to move children from foster care into permanent, loving adoptive homes.
Utah Foster Care (UFC), formerly "Utah Foster Care Foundation" is a non-profit organization that provides foster families for the State of Utah.
 Since their founding, UFC has played a role in caring for young children who have been subjected to abuse, neglect, and other hardships by their caretakers.
 As of 2013, at any given time in Utah, there are about 2,700 children experiencing crisis in the home who are in need of foster care.
 Nearly half of all cases involve substance abuse by biological parents.
 Given the difficult circumstances and special needs of these children, UFC's goal is to find and prepare foster parents to meet those needs.
 They accomplish this goal by finding, educating, and nurturing families willing to open their homes to children in foster care.
Raise A Child Inc. (AKA RaiseAChild.US) is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, providing support and services to all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adoption to meet the needs of the 415,000 children in the foster care system.
 RaiseAChild.US has become one of the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations to welcome and serve people of all orientations and identities.
 Based in Los Angeles, CA, with a regional office in Port St. Lucie, FL, RaiseAChild.US recruits, educates, and nurtures supportive relationships with all prospective foster and adoptive parents while partnering with agencies to improve the process of advancing foster children to safe, loving, and permanent homes.
The Adoption-Friendly Workplace is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that encourages employers to offer adoption benefits and celebrating those who do.
 The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has released the Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplace List since 2006.
 As a result of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s efforts, organizations nationwide established or enhanced adoption benefits each year.
Rachel M. Ewald is the founder and chairwoman of Foster Care Support Foundation, Inc.
 The Foster Care Support Foundation FCSF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides clothing, equipment, and toys to at least 3000 foster and displaced children throughout the state of Georgia annually.
 The services are free for those raised on basic state per-diem and for grandparents and relatives raising their grandchildren, nieces or nephews without the biological parent/s present in the home.
 In 1996, Ewald began collecting and distributing clothing and toy donations from neighbors to give to local foster children in need.
 The program and need grew quickly and the Foundation was incorporated in 2000.
 Ewald, a foster parent herself of fourteen years to over 50 children and mother of four biological children, understood the difficulty of raising a child on fifty to seventy five cents per hour.
 The center allows for more foster parents to afford to care for state children, while also allowing the children to acquire their own clothes, toys, and be much like any other child after losing everything when pulled from their biological homes.
 The organization's donation/distribution center, located at 115 Mansell Place in Roswell GA is set up like a retail store and is fully stocked with clothing, toys, bikes, highchairs, and other necessities, where foster parents throughout the state can come, by appointment, and shop for free.
 Rachel Ewald has also written a set of transition guidelines "Healthy Children, Healthy Adults" for foster care and adoption, with the intent of reducing disruption and trauma in foster and adoptive home and when reunifying children with their biological families.
The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Pub.L.
 106–169 , 113 Stat.
 1882 , enacted  14, 1999 ) aims to assist youth aging out of foster care in the United States in obtaining and maintaining independent living skills.
 Youth aging out of foster care, or transitioning out of the formal foster care system, are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.
 As youth age out of the foster care system at age 18, they are expected to become self-sufficient immediately, even though on average youth in the United States are not expected to reach self-sufficiency until age 26.

Question: Question: What company did Dave Thomas found who also founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, the non-for-profit organization dedicated to find adoptive homes for children waiting in North America’s foster care system that was named for Melinda Lou "Wendy" Morse, who is also the namesake and mascot of the company? 

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 Congregate care is a placement setting that consists of 24-hour supervision for children in highly structured settings such as group homes, childcare institutions, residential treatment facilities, or maternity homes.
 Such settings must be a licensed or approved home or facility that can take in 7-12 children, as seen in group homes, or 12 or more children, as seen in institutions.
 Fourteen is the average age of children who enter into congregate care.
 In the United States out of the 400,000 children in the foster care system around 55,000 live in congregate care settings.
 In the United States in 2013 there was 55,916 children in congregate care.
 In the last ten years, there has been a 37% decrease in the number of children in congregate care, which is greater than the overall 21% drop in number of children in the foster care system. 

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 The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding adoptive homes for children waiting in North America’s foster care system.
 Created in 1992 by Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, who was adopted as a child, the Foundation works to provide grants to national and regional adoption organizations for programs that raise awareness and make adoption easier and more affordable.
 Thomas' daughter Wendy serves on the foundation's board of trustees. 

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 Melinda Lou "Wendy" Morse (née Thomas; born September 14, 1961) is the daughter and fourth child of American businessman Dave Thomas, the founder of the fast food brand Wendy's.
 Morse is best known for being the namesake and mascot of the brand.
 She uses the name Wendy Thomas in her role as a spokesperson for Wendy's. 

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 The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is an American non-partisan, non-profit organization "dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands of orphans and foster children in the United States and the millions of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes through adoption; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right of a family."
 CCAI seeks to educate and inform Members of Congress in adoption, foster care, and child welfare issues that affect their constituents.
 This is done through congressional briefings, leadership training programs, educational trips, and other notable programs.
 The Institute's work is entirely funded by donations and gifts from organizations and individuals like the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 

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 Wendy's Wonderful Kids combines the fundraising strengths of Wendy's restaurants and its customers, aggressive grants management of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the talent of experienced adoption recruiters throughout the nation and Canada to move children from foster care into permanent, loving adoptive homes. 

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 Utah Foster Care (UFC), formerly "Utah Foster Care Foundation" is a non-profit organization that provides foster families for the State of Utah.
 Since their founding, UFC has played a role in caring for young children who have been subjected to abuse, neglect, and other hardships by their caretakers.
 As of 2013, at any given time in Utah, there are about 2,700 children experiencing crisis in the home who are in need of foster care.
 Nearly half of all cases involve substance abuse by biological parents.
 Given the difficult circumstances and special needs of these children, UFC's goal is to find and prepare foster parents to meet those needs.
 They accomplish this goal by finding, educating, and nurturing families willing to open their homes to children in foster care. 

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 Raise A Child Inc. (AKA RaiseAChild.US) is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, providing support and services to all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adoption to meet the needs of the 415,000 children in the foster care system.
 RaiseAChild.US has become one of the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations to welcome and serve people of all orientations and identities.
 Based in Los Angeles, CA, with a regional office in Port St. Lucie, FL, RaiseAChild.US recruits, educates, and nurtures supportive relationships with all prospective foster and adoptive parents while partnering with agencies to improve the process of advancing foster children to safe, loving, and permanent homes. 

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 The Adoption-Friendly Workplace is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that encourages employers to offer adoption benefits and celebrating those who do.
 The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has released the Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplace List since 2006.
 As a result of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s efforts, organizations nationwide established or enhanced adoption benefits each year. 

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Answer: Wendy's