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“I told them we were being taken and I didn’t know where we were going and when we were coming back.” That’s how Kaysie, then 14, recalls telling her friends... By Guest Writer This post Defining Moments: How the Foster …
Danielle DeMaison woke before sunrise one foggy morning last April and loaded her two daughters into her 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. Even though the cornstalk-lined roads around her little hamlet of... By Michael Fitzgerald This post New York Struggles to Meet …
My family was a big one, including my two biological sisters and the foster children we welcomed into our home.
Since 2015, California has offered $15 million in community college assistance — including tutoring, transportation and housing support — to kids in foster care who are age 16 to 26.... By Guest Writer This post California Expands Community College Assistance …
J. Cortez III was just 16 years old when he proved to the court he was independent and could be legally emancipated from his mother, though he’d been on his own since he was 12. He’d spent years avoiding the …
The Coalition for Responsible Community Development (CRCD) is a place-based community development corporation in the Vernon-Central community of South Los Angeles and is launching a new program to improve educational attainment among current and former foster youth. CRCD provides workforce development programming …
Rep. Karen Bass, far left, with DCFS Director Philip Browning, SEIU Treasurer David Green, and other guests during the Friday town hall. On Friday, one of Congress’ top child welfare advocates came to Los Angeles to pitch an all-but-dead federal …
Many believe art is the most effective form of therapy. Art therapy not only helps release visuals of a horrific past, it releases the soul to become free of all hurt, pain and regret that we let hold us down. …
Last month, we joined leaders within tech, philanthropy, the social sector, the White House and former foster youth who convened at Google in San Francisco to think of ways that technology could help improve the foster care system. The result …
Foster Youth Celebrate Major Milestones Marie Hughes, Education Support Services Manager, and Jazz Allensworth, TAY FAP CoordinatorVoice of an FCNI Staff Caring for teenagers is oftentimes the ride of a lifetime! They are growing and developing into even more independent …