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We've added a new course - Introducing Your Home! The new course focuses on how to introduce a child to your home, reasons a youth may have a difficult time...

Well-being
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We've added a new course - The Wounded Spirit: Grief in Foster Care! Learn about the unique challenges foster youth face through the grieving process and understand how grief and...

Mental health
Well-being
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PeerUp! Creating youth-adult partnerships! 3 words were all I needed to hear to know PeerUp! is a success. We use many methods to measure programs. We call them evidence-based, best...

Well-being

Los Angeles County is a major hub and transit route for sex-trafficked youth. 70% of these youth come from foster care. In 2015, they launched new strategies to address their...

Sex trafficking

BY DAVID CRARY AP NATIONAL WRITER Not so long ago, if foster children in Florida wanted to spend the night at a friend's house, the parents hosting the sleepover faced...

Well-being
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On September 29, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (H.R. 4980). This new law takes important steps forward in preventing vulnerable foster...

Sex trafficking
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Council members of the National Foster Care Youth and Alumni Policy Council met on October 9, 2012, with the George Sheldon, Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families...

Sex trafficking
Transition (aging out)

I was going to come on here and write about my new job and how life after the All-Star training and summer has been but after getting a call from...

Well-being

Love this poem. Thought I would share. Reach for the Stars Reach for the Stars let your light shine through Make this World brighter for me and for you Reach...

Well-being

THANK YOU FOSTER CLUB FOR GIVING ME THIS STEPPING STONE YOU ARE GREAT, YOU HELPED ME TO DISCOVER AND EMBRACE OTHERS YOU HELPED ME TO ELEVATE MYSELF THE TEAM IS...

Well-being