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Listed here are just a selection of challenges that can make the journey to adulthood more difficult. If have one or more of these challenges, it does not mean that...

Transition (aging out)

This is your life. As you approach adulthood, you will have more and more control over decisions that affect you. Your participation in the planning process is the best way...

Transition (aging out)

18-year-old Kayla VanDyke has had to leave a lot behind over the 14 years she’s spent in foster care and homeless. She entered foster care at age four because of...

Education

SunSentinel.com, April 5, 2010, by Akilah Johnson , Fort Lauderdale-

If the state slashes Tamarra Lestage's only safety net — a monthly stipend given to former foster children — she'll...

Transition (aging out)

FosterClub applauds the recent statement by the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth led by Senators Grassley (R-IA) and Landrieu (D-LA) which urges legislators to hear from foster youth as they...

Education

OregonLive.com, by Michelle Cole, February 23, 2010, SALEM -- Teens aging out of foster care will retain health care coverage from the Oregon Health Plan until they turn 21, under...

Transition (aging out)

FosterClub believes young people and alumni have unique insight about what their peers in foster care are experiencing, making them uniquely suited to recognize trends and emerging issues in foster...

Adoption
Education

Hey everybody, So i am transiting out of foster care in 26 more days. I am very excited but in a way i am very scared due to that fact...

Independent living
Transition (aging out)

CHANGES ARE Funky sometimes uncertain, and the days have crowded with newfound tasks as well as responsibilities to undertake and effectively assume those new responsibilities safely and surely. I am...

Transition (aging out)

Hey everyone, We for an update. I have started my fall semester at herkimer county community college. this year i have great classes to take and some i learn alot...

Education