Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

When former foster youth return for help to the agencies that formerly served "in loco parentis," they aren't treated like...

You might have heard of the movie "Daddy Long Legs" based on the book by Jean Webster. An orphan is supported through college by a...

The American Indian College Fund and the National Endowment for Financial Education co-published a series of four handbooks on Develop...

I recently read a report that did an excellent job of outlining the current lack of accuracy and effectiveness in measuring homeless yout...

Two of my favorite artists incorporate collage and mixed media into their work... Jonathan Darby is an artist from the UK whose artwork d...

Kudos to Chris Chmielewski of Foster Focus Magazine for inviting foster care youth and alumni throughout the nation to share what foster ca...

The Ohio chapter of Foster Care Alumni of America was honored to serve as lead facilitator, and one of the sponsors of Three Days on the H...

Things People Never Told Me is a publication created by the Better Futures Project . The authors of this publication interviewed a grou...

Please note that I am not writing this as a foster parent, but as a former foster child. As an alumna of the foster care system, I am ...

  Did you know that:   One in six young people between ages 16 and 24 years old are unattached to work or school in America?     (App...

Source: Comments to U.S. Department of Education Docket ID: ED-2012–OVAE–0014 Linda Harris and Kisha Bird, CLASP, July 2012 Led by th...

Interesting Reading: A Shared Vision for Youth: Common Outcomes and Indicators

Map from 1980: Gray: Elderly Red: Elderly and Children Orange: Child Poverty Map from 2010 Orange: Child Poverty Chec...

Source of chart: Center for American Progress A separate report, the 12th edition of the Economic Policy Institute's State of Workin...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that young adults have been hit the hardest by the recession and its aftermath.  Accordi...