Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

Graphic from www.jimcaseyyouth.org Young people transitioning out of foster care are at a higher risk for dropping out of high school, becom...

Photograph of Pinkie Thomas Although 70% of 17-year-olds in foster care express a desire to attend college , only 54% graduate from high sch...

Photograph from myfoxdetroit.com This is the face of a child whom foster care has failed. Three-year-old James Bradley was placed in foster...

ChildNet has a $65 million contract with the Florida Department of Children and Families to provide Broward County's child welfare serv...

Photo of Lupe from www.fosterclub.com Below is Lupe's guest opinion, as published in the Tuscon Citizen on April 13, 2007. Guest Opinio...

According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; - 11 percent of American youth live with a parent who abuses drugs or alcoh...

In his effort to close a $360 million budget deficit over two years, Governor Donald Carcieri is willing to sacrifice the futures of teenage...

Resource families is a term that can apply to adoptive, foster, kinship and respite families. Most states have a statewide organization to s...

Kids Are Waiting: Fix Foster Care Now is a national campaign to help children in foster care find the safe, permanent families they deserve...

Jeannette Walls, author of the memoir Glass Castle, is just as amazing in person as she is on the page. I met her this weekend, during a sp...

Foster Care Alumni of America www.fostercarealumni.org invites current and former foster children to create postcards to express one aspec...

Photograph of Samara from CBS.com This weekend, I watched Leslie Stahl's December interview titled: Lost and Found . The topic was reun...

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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...