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Promoting Peer Support in Child Welfare

By Celeste – Jul 30, 2024 | Filed under Public Policy

FosterClub believes peer support programs are crucial for young people and their families. For youth, the ability to turn to peers who understand what they are going through is a vital lifeline. Peer support programs for young people can take many shapes: sometimes peer support is found through involvement in a Youth Advisory Board, other times it may include Peer...

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Change Is On Its Way In Michigan

By coxange1 – Oct 28, 2015 | Filed under Youth Perspective

After interning for FosterClub this summer, I made a promise to myself that I would continue my advocacy work with foster youth once I returned to Michigan. When I got...

Rights in foster care

Daryle Conquering-Bear Testifies in DC on Disproportionality

By Celeste – Aug 7, 2008 | Filed under Public Policy

Today FosterClub All-Star Daryle Conquering-Bear testified in front of the U.S. Congressional Ways and Means Committee. Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support...

Rights in foster care

Promoting Peer Support in Child Welfare

Change Is On Its Way In Michigan

Daryle Conquering-Bear Testifies in DC on Disproportionality

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