Sunday, February 14, 2021

Valentine's Day 2021

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Woke up to roses, a personalized card and Valentine's Day bacon and eggs today! This is what Carly did for the kiddos...  Made me think ...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Roman Sandhu and Jonathan Thomas in the Columbus Dispatch

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  Help available to youths aging out of foster care amid pandemic Megan Henry, Columbus Dispatch, February 9, 2020. Roman Sandhu entered fos...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

Scholar House 3

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Ohio foster care youth and alumni  have been working with the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority and Columbus State Community College s...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Press conference to celebrate the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act

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    Representative Michael Turner invited foster care youth and alumni advocates from the OHIO YAB and ACTION Ohio to join him in celebratin...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

husband haiku

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Lisa strolled the shores Saving shells for later days Glitter, glue, and glaze
Monday, January 18, 2021

Martin Luther King Day, 2021

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“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Please Don't Be "Relentless"

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I am deeply concerned by the new national tagline to “Be Relentless for Families” and how it might undermine interventions for abused kids a...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

FYI: By Youth, For Youth

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As a former foster youth who aged out in 1989 and experienced homelessness within a year, it has been the deepest privilege of my life to pa...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Grieving the unexpected loss of Cleta Kawa

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Shared journeys: An adopted son and his mother's support Richards, Heather Richards, May 28, 2016. The opening bars of “Pomp and Circums...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Summary of Provisions Impacting Transition Age Youth in the Recently Passed Federal Stimulus and Funding Package

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The Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act (H.R. 7947) includes the following:  1.) Fostering Stable Housing Opportun...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Post Christmas Storytime Zoom

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Housing vouchers for young adults who aged out of foster care quietly becomes law

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  Older Youth and Young Adults The deal includes $400 million for the John Chafee Foster Care Independence Program, $50 million of which goe...

FSHO becomes federal law

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Quotes from Ruthie White of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare: It is downright poetic that on the darkest, coldest day of a ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Housing options are a vital element of transition planning

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Foster youth throughout the nation deserve to have housing options thoughtfully considered prior to their transition to adulthood.   Effecti...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

A news story that deeply resonated with me.

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Tamara Vest's story deeply resonates with me. Both her father and my mother died of cancer. School was an escape for both of us. Her j...

FSHO Senate Push

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  Throughout the month of December 2020, foster care youth, alumni and allies throughout the nation are invited to call their United States ...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Messages of thanks from Lorain County FYI recipients

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Virtual Meeting with HUD Secretary Ben Carson

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On Monday, November 30, 2020, some of the architects of the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative from ACTION Ohio, and young people...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

What love looks like on a Sunday morning

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Child Protection Must Remain the North Star

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The North Star, Polaris, marks the way due north. The reason the North Star is so important is because the axis of Earth is pointed almost d...