Foster Kids Get Help Transitioning to Adulthood

  Foster kids that age out of foster care face many challenges. They often don't have family members who can act as a guide, offer support or act as a financial safety net. Once foster youths are out of the foster care system, 90% will become homeless, be incarcerated within two years or turn to crime as a way to survive. Connections 2 Independence in Minnesota is one organization working...

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Foster Youth Aging Out Topic of National Summit

There is no denying that foster children suffer emotionally and mentally. Many case workers will share that "foster care is no place for a child." Having said this, there are incredible costs to taxpayers for the needed support for foster kids. And these costs don't go away once these children age out. A National Summit on Youth Aging Out of Foster Care is being co-organized by...

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Foster Kids Get Access to Goodwill Industries New Job Training Program

Goodwill Industries is again helping out those in need by launching a new job training program aimed specifically at existing and former foster children. Many foster teens are forced out (age out) of foster care when they are just 18 years old. Experts agree that few teenagers, whether or not they are foster youth, are really prepared to make their way in the world by their 18th...

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Foster Kids Receive 800 Quilts from Paradise Valley Church

Although many churches have programs to help children, Paradise Valley Church in Arizona launched a program to give quilts to foster kids. Caring church members have completed and given more than 800 quilts to local foster children. Many in the public don't know that most foster children move from home to home with whatever clothes they have stuffed in a garbage or paper bag. Many of these...

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New Foster Child Bill Designed to Help Kids Finish College

Maine will be the first state in the U.S. to have a law in place to support foster teens to complete college. Most experts agree that one of the best investments the U.S. can make is in education. Unfortunately, many, if not most, foster kids will enter adulthood with a much lower level of education than the general youth. Foster youth transitioning out of foster care are at significantly...

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Foster childen received Easter baskets from 11 year old

Once again there is a heart-warming story about a child who doesn't let age or lack of a steady pay check get in the way of giving. When Marcellus Waldron, a student at East Jackson’s Bertha Robinson Elementary School, got some extra money for his birthday, he decided to help several foster kids to have a happier Easter. I'll let the story speak for itself, but it should give everyone a moment's...

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Foster Children Deaths in Texas Spur Demand for Change

Nothing is sadder than a child dying from nature causes, but such a death is beyond tragic when it happens to a foster child because of abuse and neglect by those adults tasked with protecting the child. Texas Child Protective Services is reeling from a report by the non-profit group "Texans Care for Children" that documents the deaths of ten foster kids in 2013. The report highlights undereducated...

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Foster Kids Will Benefit From Donation to Making Kids Count

Making Kids Count, an organization in Ohio, received a much-needed donation to help foster children. Many children are taken from their families by CPS, Child Protective Services. In this situation the immediate goal is to get the children out of harm's way as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this tactical "in and out" maneuver results in children being removed with only the clothes they...

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New Foster Children Law Needs More Work

Many states have extended the age when foster kids are forced to leave from 18 to 21. Florida recently made a similar change, but both the state foster care agency as well as foster youth are identifying areas of concern. Another way that foster kids can be helped is by foster care agencies working to locate relatives of these children so they have family support when they are forced out (age...

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Find Families In Mexico: U.S. Foster Kids Have Too Many Placements

Most of the public is unaware that foster children can spend years in foster care moving from one home to the next with disastrous results. April McWilliams, one such foster teen, remembers her four years in foster care that were spent between three different homes. When relatives of a foster child are located, these family members can provide the emotional support these children need...

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Keeping Foster Children with Relatives Should Be a Priority

While there is no one solution to help foster children, too often the overriding message from state agencies is "Adopt!" House Bill 54 would require an extensive relative search be completed during the first 30 days a child is removed from their home. However, unless there is funding to support this law, county foster child agencies will continue to use a lack of funding as a reason not to...

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Find Families In Mexico - High Pregnancy Rates for Foster Children

Medical experts have always said that teen pregnancy can have adverse effects in the body. It has been found that females foster kids in their teens are twice as likely to become pregnant than the ones who generally live with parents. More shocking is that statistics say that these foster teens even experience a repeat pregnancy before reaching the age of 19. Such troublesome scenario is nothing...

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