Saturday, December 22, 2018

Planning ahead for DC in 2019

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Broken Bridge Between Youth-Serving and Adult-Serving Systems

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Lack of access to existing services by former foster youth is a national problem: Click to enlarge image Part of this is that ther...

Employment and Education Outcomes for Ohio Foster Youth By Age 21

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Ohio has a fractured safety net for transitional youth in general, and this is especially true for young people "aging out" of fos...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Love this story from Angie, my college friend

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Yesterday (her son) disobeyed, and he was put in a time-out and lost his screen time: He took this piece of paper and he drew a very smal...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Benon Lutaaya: Collage Artist

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Benon Lutaaya, Johannesburg, South Africa

Patrick Bremer: Collage Artist

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Patrick Bremer, German collage artist
Sunday, September 02, 2018

Scheduling a Visit With Your District Office

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Many thanks to foster care youth, alumni and allies for signing the  online petition  in support of the Fostering Stable Housing Act. Let’s...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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We need the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act to pass, in order to help former foster youth between ages 18-25 with housing. The...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

My husband is my constant

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Support with Reconnecting With Bio Families After Foster Care

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--> Adoption Network Cleveland recently created “ Reconnections Support ” to support former foster youth who are trying to reco...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

Anniversary Steak

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Sunday, July 01, 2018

Photos from Carly's Wedding

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Link to more photos .

Nathan and Lisa's 18th Wedding Anniversary

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Click to enlarge. The 18th wedding anniversary is the "cook your wife steak with a blowtorch" year -- or at least that's w...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Developmental Relationship Framework

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The Search Institute first created the 40 Developmental Assets , and has recently been exploring the Developmental Relationship Framework...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Time for ACTION to end the Foster Care to Homeless Pipeline

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Youth who age out of foster care face many challenges during our transition to young adulthood – but our greatest challenges are related to ...

12 years later...

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Sweet surprise at my foster parent training on Friday - from a young person in foster care that I met and gave books to back in 2006. ...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Thousand People of Genoa Project

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It's been a weird week, with car problems and what not. Then, I go to work and discover that I've been chosen for second part ...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Lisa Dickson's federal testimony on the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018 United States House of Representatives House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insuran...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Committee to Address Youth Experiencing Homelessness

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In 2017, Columbus was selected to participate in a 100-Day Challenge to Address Youth Homelessness by A Way Home America , a non-profit...

Oregon initiative to recruit Host Homes

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Youth who are “new” to our streets are more likely to become chronically homeless if we do not intervene within 15 nights. The 15th ...