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I'm new at this blogging thing so excuse me if I don't do it right. However, I love to talk and will not stop unless told so blogging should be...

Well-being

Foster Care I just finished watching the movie The Blindside such an aspiring movie a movie I enjoyed also a movie I can relate to. Each year there are thousands...

Well-being

Hey there everyone, I decided that I wanted to share with you a story taht I wrote for my class. I felt pretty darn proud of it and wanted to...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
Well-being

Mallory is going to be a high school senior in the fall, but before she does that, she’s got a busy summer. The DCFS foster child, who is also on...

Education
Higher education

I always enjoy learning knew things. Everyone makes mistakes and that is ok, as long as you can take something positive from it. The whole glass half empty, half full...

Well-being

Haven’t heard about the Higher Education Opportunity Act?

Well, guess what, if you are a student and a foster youth or alum there may be some things you should know...

Higher education

She feels less pretty less worthy sad and stuck. like her family, critical and harsh negative and pessimistic all those things a man used to call her But deep inside...

Well-being

National Foster Youth Advisory Council Members of the National Foster Youth Advisory Council (NFYAC) believe that every young person in the foster care system is entitled to a wide array...

Transition (aging out)
Well-being

Wassup People... I struggled with my faith ever since I was a young child. My bio parents always told me about God, that I should fear Him. That He was...

Well-being

I have my memories. My past. Most of which I would rather not have gone through, but the reality of it is- its who I am. My past affected my...

Well-being