This 50-State Review serves as a tool to better understand the state-level support for this vulnerable student population and provides a guidepost for possible policy redesign. An accompanying interactive data visualization provides an in-depth look at tuition assistance programs available in specific states and the number of foster youth [...]
School. It is a place of frustration, loss, failure, and reminder of loss to a child in foster care. It is a place of humiliation, bullying, shame, and sorrow for those who are placed in a foster home. Yet, so few recognize the many challenges and disruptions that [...]
http://www.fostercarefilm.com/ FAMILY REWRITTEN Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps. Just months before her 18th birthday Camilla finds herself in foster care, but instead of being ashamed, [...]
State Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, chairs the Senate Finance Committee. With her during a 2016 hearing on the state budget are, left to right, Sens. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville; Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen; and John Whitmire, D-Houston. Jay Janner AP BY RALPH D. HEATH AND C.W. “DUB” [...]
Let’s just start this article out with some of the most memorable names that I have been called: fag, faggot, queer, gay, homosexual, sinner, and even told multiple times I should just kill myself and die. Take a single moment and understand that this began when I was [...]
Foster Care Alumni Share Advice for Representing Youth in Child Welfare Cases South Texas College of Law (STCL) is committed to serving the public good and producing lawyers able and inclined to give back to society. One of the ways in which the law school accomplishes this [...]
A donor who requested to remain anonymous has announced today that he is pleased to pledge $1000 towards to cost of my transportation to attend the International Foster Care Conference in Sydney, Australia. The remaining funds need to be raised to ensure that I attend this wonderful opportunity. [...]
Chickasaw Times - the Chickasaw Nation newspaper - President visits Indian Country; Obama expresses concern for tribal youth [http://www.chickasawtimes.net/] CONTRIBUTED BY Dana Lance, Media Relations. Durant, Okla. – Improving the lives of young Native Americans was the theme of President Barack Obama’s July 15 address; and three Chickasaw [...]
Pictured: Jimmy D. John, Chickasaw NICWA congratulates member, Jimmy John, as the first NICWA member to be awarded the Wisdom Circle Scholarship, a members-only scholarship for professional and educational development in the field of Indian child welfare. Jimmy is a Foster Care Alumni and will be attending the [...]
Chickasaw Citizen Impacting International Foster Care By J.D. John Foster Focus Contributor Every good introduction needs a great eye catching statement; so here is mine. I embrace the title of being a foster child and now a foster care alumnus. My unique situation as into who I am [...]
