Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

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Photo of Rebecca Riley from msnbc.com Does this little girl look like she needed to be on antipsychotic drugs to you? Yes, her parents actua...

Photograph of Rebecca's parents, Michael and Rebecca Riley from the Boston Globe. In Hull, Massachusetts, Rebecca Riley perished from an...

Photo of Gov. Carcieri from http://www.coneg.org While other states explore options to extend their services to young people transitioning o...

Photo of Sue Hutchins and boyfriend Michael Robinson from dispatch.com After beating his infant son into an irreversible coma, Michael Robin...

A critical independent living skill for teenagers is learning how to drive a car. For teens in foster care, this is as important, if not mo...

In Ohio, since the death of Marcus Feisel, the state is looking more closely into the criminal records of foster parents, and figuring out ...

My friend Lupe Ortiz-Tovar was a Foster Club All-Star during its second year of existence... and the experience changed her life! Internshi...

Photograph of Michael and Sharen Gravelle from msnbc.com "Collector families" is a term referring to adoptive (or foster) families...

Postcard Project: Youth and alumni create postcards to share their experience in foster care. Foster Care Alumni of America is a relatively...

Heii Anderson of Keiki Photography took this picture. Judge Browning is the gentleman in the red tie. It is estimated that 80% of people li...

Photo from www.nilausa.org In 2003, high school students from all over the country submitted 3000 essays were submitted to a New York Time...

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Photograph of Georgie Buoy; note the moral vacancy in her eyes. Okay - deep breath. Some news stories are so terrible that I don't even...

Meet Kayla Pettit, 16 years old. When she entered foster care at eight years old, she was separated from her siblings. She didn't see he...

http://youthpolicyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2007/02/lisas-message-to-congress.html I was asked by the Youth Policy Action Center to share my...

The Orphan Foundation of America and Casey Family Scholars Program are offering $1.5 million to help foster youth attend college, university...

I ran across Evan Davis' blog recently: http://www.evandavis.name/ He has created a series of commercials for the Christian Family Care ...

Adrian McLemore spent 10 years of his life in foster care. He believes that everything happens for a reason. Throughout high school and d...

Kudos to 34-year-old Karen Gordon for using her $1.3 million divorce settlement to start a nonprofit organization to improve orphanages. The...