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Participating in Head Start may help prevent young children from being placed in foster care, finds a national study led ...

In 2015, more than 425,000 children were placed in foster care due to incidents of abuse and neglect. But many ...

Photo Credit: Foster Youth In Action In May 2016, Anna Shobe-Wallace, program manager for Louisville Metro Community Services said, “Each ...

Jackie Kay - Scotland's National Poet ©cc by 2.0 University of Salford Press Office Scotland's national poet, Jackie Kay, has ...

Congresswoman Karen Bass speaking to Foster Youth Representatives on Capitol Hill On May 24th, 2017, in honor of National Foster ...

Every year, educators in the public education system spend roughly 180 days and approximately around 1,000 hours with our children. ...

To effectively perform social services, providers must understand where a person comes from. It is taking the time to recognize ...

Freya Barrington, a highly commended Social Worker, is the author of the international bestseller Known to Social Services. This powerful ...

UTRGV students Carlie Patrick (far left), a junior English/communication studies major, and Leroy Berrones Soto (second from left), a sophomore ...

Often, helping professionals in the lives of foster care youth struggle to understand the magnitude of loss a child or teen ...

Psychotropic treatments for children in foster care can be appropriate, but this form of therapy requires considerable oversight and advocacy ...

Many social workers, other helping professionals, and foster care alumni have recognized the value in utilizing technology to support foster ...

In 2008, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act required states to begin developing plans to monitor health ...

Traveling with friends and family to events is something I like to do for two reasons. One is the fact ...

“It’s natural for you to think about how fostering will affect your life.  About how hard it will be or ...

Recently on a cloudy August morning, I was simultaneously texting a young person to see if they were okay after ...

Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...

In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster ...

“Over the next 10 months, Jake and his brother were moved 11 times, sometimes in short succession.” This quote is ...

Motivational speaker Travis Lloyd’s Overcoming Emotional Trauma: Life Beyond Survival Mode is a fresh fusion of autobiography and practical advice ...