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"Beyond Placement: Fostering Lifelong Support and Belonging": Expert Insights from Lived Experience Leaders

By  System Change Team  –  Feb 7, 2025  |  Filed under Youth Perspective
The National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council creates recommendations that child welfare leaders, workers, and policymakers can use to improve and support lifelong connections for young people in...
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Education
Entering foster care
Family relationships
Mental health
Permanence
Rights in foster care
Sibling separation
Transition (aging out)
Well-being
Who Should Receive Social Security Benefits for Youth in Foster Care?

Who Should Receive Social Security Benefits for Youth in Foster Care?

By  Ronnie  –  May 2, 2024  |  Filed under Public Policy
Casey Family Programs, the Children’s Bureau, and Lived Experience (LEx) Leaders shined a light on a social security benefits issue in a webinar hosted by American Public Human Services Association...
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Rights in foster care
Young people shopping in grocery store

New Food Assistance for Youth From Foster Care

By  lngoble  –  Jan 10, 2024  |  Filed under Announcements

What are these new guidelines? The new SNAP guidelines say that if you were in foster care at age 18 and are now under age 25, you may qualify food...

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Independent living
Transition (aging out)
Well-being

LEx Leaders Prove Power of Peer Support at Conference on Transitioning Out of Care

By  JohnnyBryant  –  Sep 11, 2023  |  Filed under Editorial

LEx Leaders Prove Power of Peer Support at Conference on Transitioning Out of Care Transitioning out of care is hard. But the four Lived Experience (LEx) Leaders and three FosterClub...

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Independent living
Transition (aging out)