foster youth Archive
Giving Voice to our Foster KidsErin Voss, FCNI Social WorkerVoice of an FCNI Staff We work and serve in a very challenging field, and we can’t avoid acknowledging and responding to the vast injustices our foster children have experienced. However, …
By Rachel Velcoff Hults and Atasi Uppal | June 8, 2016 Gabriel was 16 when he came into contact with the child welfare system for the second time. He was minimally engaged in school, but he flew under school administrators’ …
Sixto Cancel is in his early 20s, African American, gay, and grew up in several Connecticut foster homes. I am middle aged, a Taiwanese immigrant, a former Girl Scout leader, and I live in Albany, California with my husband and …
This story was first published in The Huffington Post on April 4. On Father’s Day weekend, I will once again don my climbing boots, grab the ice axe and head up the snowy flanks of 14,000-foot Mt. Shasta in …
Most group homes in California are poised to embrace mandated changes to the way they administer services under a new law if they want to continue providing care to children and youth in foster care. But for one residential facility …
Credit: Shannon Cottrell Calif. Community College Chancellor Brice Harris and Keetha Mills, CEO of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, accept an award at the Blueprint Conference held in Los Angeles on Oct. 28. Debbie Raucher (center) of the John …
In the debate about children and psychotropic medications, everyone is looking for better outcomes. Foster youth are seeking to assert more control over their lives and their health care, and they want people to understand that medications alone cannot fix …