All posts tagged "Foster Care"

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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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.

Academics, Former Foster Kids Talk Solutions in New York City

Researchers, academics, practitioners and current and former foster youth came together to discuss transitioning out of the foster care system and some...

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Los Angeles Trying New Tactics to Help Children, Many in Foster Care, Who Are Sexually Trafficked

Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew grew up in the foster care system in Los Angeles, where she lived in 14 different group...

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Powerful Voices of New York City’s Former Foster Youth

From loving mentors to abusive foster parents and indifferent social workers, a group of New Yorkers talk openly about surviving foster care...

Positive + Policy

"If we can get these kids to believe, and if we can get these parents on board to believe, we can make...

National Coalition for Child Protection Reform executive director Richard Wexler head shot

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Time to Take Close Look at Family First Act

To read the rhetoric coming from the foster care-industrial complex lately, you’d think that the private child welfare agencies that need a...

Who Will I Be As an Adult?

In all those years I was bounced around, I didn’t know where I belonged or what would happen when I aged out...

Teen wearing black t-shirt sits infront of white couch doing homework on coffee table.

From the Field

Earn to Learn: A Teen’s Job Is to Do Well in School

Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...

What Do We Owe Each Other?

A teenage girl on the road to high school graduation struggles to stay connected to her birth parents while coping with their...

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Federal PSA Campaign and Study Aim to Increase Awareness of Youth Homelessness

A new federal campaign launches this month, alongside the release of a study that looks at the varied experiences of homeless youth...

I Choose Foster Care

I have been in foster care before, but this is the first time I chose to be. Before, I was ashamed to...

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Learning What Family Is at Age 16

It’s no Disney show, but after more than 16 placements, Selena reflects on how stability and safety in a foster home help...

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Always a Need: Recruiting Foster Parents

"They're kids. They need a home; they need to be loved," says Catherine Harm, a social worker and prospective foster parent. Harm...

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The Jig Is Up, Child Savers: Molly McGrath Tierney Is on to You

Molly McGrath Tierney is not some bomb-throwing outsider who wouldn’t say terrible things about the child welfare system if she understood what...

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Will ESSA Raise College Access, Track Graduation Rates for Foster Youth?

Before the Allegheny County Department of Human Services set up a data-sharing program back in 2009 with the Pittsburgh Public School District,...

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New York Tries New Ways to Increase Stability for Kids in Foster Care

NEW YORK — The cycle is often triggered by something simple: refusing to do homework, leaving clothes on the floor, typical kid...

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When the Caretaker Has Nowhere to Turn

"[If] we could keep them out of foster care and just work on with what's going on with the family at home,...

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Foster Caretaker Must Be Ready to Be Thoroughly Supportive of LGBT Youth

For many youth, foster care can be a safe place for care and support when the biological family does not provide appropriate...

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