Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

One of my favorite movies in college was “ A Muppet Christmas Carol. ” As a former foster child, I could relate to Scrooge’s need to co...

The second annual FCAA NE OH Thanksgiving Dinner for Foster Care Teens and Emancipated Youth once again captured the heart of what this even...

A place where foster care teens, emancipated youth and adult alumni are always welcome. Having experienced foster care ourselves, we know th...

My entire fall has been consumed by preparations for the 2011 Career and Entrepreneurship Conference - because today's foster care you...

In 1996,the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant replaced the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) pr...

A recent report from the Center for an Urban Future found that: One in 10 youth in New York City who emancipated from foster care in t...

Quotes from CNN: "The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of ra...

HELPING CHILDREN TALK ABOUT ABUSE AND COMPLEX LIVING SITUATIONS The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Be Sad by Rob Goldblatt, 2004. A boy who does...

HELPING CHILDREN TALK ABOUT THEIR FOSTER CARE EXPERIENCE A Child is A Child by Brigette Weninger, 2004. After two young frogs are abandon...

According to Table 3: States with largest percent of total exits due to youth aging out (FY 2009) : 1,453 Ohio youth "aged out...

"Investments in early childhood are essential to preparing the next generation to succeed—but so too are investments in older youth a...

According to Children's Budget 2011 , spending on children in the 2011 federal budget dropped by nearly 10 percent from 2010, falling ...

I safeguard this blog for foster care-related news, including upcoming trends that can positively or negatively impact foster care youth who...

Trends in the Summer Employment / Population Ratios of the Nation’s Teens 1989 – 2010 According to the Center for Labor Market Studies : ...

According to The Undereducated American , a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce: The United States...

According to the Multi-State Study on Psychotropic Medication Oversight in Foster Care conducted by the Tufts Clinical and Translational S...

According to the CLASP fact sheet Yesterday's Nontraditional Student is Today's Traditional Student: 47% of undergraduates are ind...

According to the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, students with savings accounts in their name — regard...

According to the New England Journal of Medicine : "Expansions of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are de...