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I entered foster care at age 12. I was in an abusive home and would act out so that I could get in trouble and hopefully get recognized so that...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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We're excited to welcome our Level II All-Star Interns to Seaside to kick off our All-Star Internship! Hear directly from the team below in their message to the 2018 All-Stars...

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FosterClub was given the opportunity to have more space on the river and so we paddled on down the road to our new Headquarters. We are excited to welcome our...

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On Tuesday, February 6, 2018, the National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council hosted a webinar that centered on one of our most recent priority statements, Preventing Unnecessary Removal...

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When I was 8, I would find myself in a peculiar but fateful point in my life when I would enter into the Arkansas Foster Care system through child endangerment...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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Often the world we live in is something that no one would expect for it to be. When we are born we do not get a choice as to who...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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I like to tell myself, that not everyone gets their traditional story. My parents weren’t fit to be parents or even to be part of the public eye at that...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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Foster care inherently involves confusion, being overwhelmed, and difficulties learning life skills if a youth transitions a lot during their time in care. I definitely am one of those youth...

Health care
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Are you interested in improving your state's implementation of the provision to cover former foster youth to the age of 26? Join a webinar which marks the launch of the...

Health care
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Calling all current and former foster youth, and foster care youth & alumni organizations: Sign-on to a letter asking Congress to fix the glitch which makes it so foster youth...

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