GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — A two-year campaign by Friends of Pals, Youth and Families raised nearly $1.3 million to expand the Brown County Family Center, which will unveil its new space October 17.

The Center offers a home-like environment for supervised visits between children in the care of Child Protective Services and their biological parents.

It’s also a space for foster families to meet and connect.

“As we came here, we got to be in different private rooms with a ton of the toys that the kids loved,” remembered foster parent Michael Schwartz, who has adopted three foster children with his wife.

About 40 families visit the center each week. It’s the only one in the state.

“In other counties, they often just see their children in office space, court rooms, that kind of thing,” explaine

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