Twenty-four families from Elmbrook Church in Brookfield are poised to open their homes to children in crisis.
The families have been certified through a Chicago-based nonprofit that recruits volunteers to take in children temporarily while their parents or guardians work through personal problems.
Distressed parents are already calling the newly formed Safe Families for Children Milwaukee seeking help, said director Traci Weldie of Watertown. But no child has been placed. The program has been stalled by a Wisconsin law…