All posts tagged "Foster Care"

How Many Children Are in the Foster Care Twilight Zone?

When cases involving children needlessly torn from their families would arise in Texas — like this one and this one — advocates...

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Stop TANF from Being the Child Welfare Slush Fund

In the great debate over child welfare finance reform, few are paying attention to one of the biggest scandals surrounding how we...

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Child Maltreatment History Should Be a Bar to Being a Foster Parent

It’s just common sense: An adult's past criminal history or history of child maltreatment is not to be balanced against the safety...

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From New York to LA: The best of Our Foster Care Coverage

For the past year, the Center for Sustainable Journalism has directed much of its attention to foster care issues, featuring mentorship, care...

GAO Calls for Reducing Barriers to College for Foster and Homeless Youth

Burdensome paperwork requirements, limited academic preparation and a lack of adult guidance and support make it difficult for foster and homeless youth...

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From the Bureaus

California Law to Close Group Homes Stresses Importance of Family for Every Foster Kid

Katrina Alston wasn’t trained as a therapist, social worker or anything of that nature when she worked at a Pasadena, California, group...

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No Job, No Home, No Green Card: Crashing Into 21

“Do you know you’re an illegal immigrant?” I was 19 when my social worker asked me this question. Shocked and confused, I...

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Lost in the System: Girls, Foster Care and the Commercial Sex Trade in L.A. County

Hundreds of L.A. children are sexually exploited every year. Experts in the field say it's not surprising that 70 percent of them...

Better Collaboration Key to Helping Crossover Youth, Panelists Say

A Senate Judiciary hearing, held this week as part of National Foster Care Month, looked at how jurisdictions across the country are...

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Beating the Odds: Boosting School Success Rates for Students in Foster Care

Before moving from her biological mother’s home and into foster care at age 10, Kathy Rando was in the gifted program at...

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Represent: A Magazine for Foster Kids by Foster Kids

The nonprofit Youth Communication in Manhattan shares the voices of youth in foster care through Represent magazine, used as an educational tool...

More Foster Homes Needed, Lawmakers Move Away from Group Homes

Advocates spoke up at Capitol Hill briefing about the need for more supports for foster families and kinship care as states decrease...

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Teen Birth Rate Drops Dramatically, Still Huge Issue for Foster Kids

Jessica Chandler spent her teenage years in foster care in California after her parents divorced and her mother struggled with mental illness....

You Gotta Believe!

“Aging out is not safe. Aging out leaves kids with sort of a lifetime of potential dire outcomes and loneliness," says Susan...

Watch What Happens When Former NYC Foster Kids Speak Truth to Power

You can hear the frustration — and need — in each of their voices as this group of young adults, who grew...

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From the Bureaus

A Whole New Tech World for Foster Care Youth in New York City

Foster youth attending a Tech Summit last weekend walked away with laptops, wifi and introductions to new skills.

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