Help At-Risk Youth in Foster Care During National Adoption Month
Over 117,000 children and youth across the country are in foster care waiting for a forever family. Many are teenagers at risk of aging out of foster care without permanent family connections. In 2020, more than 20 percent of those waiting to be adopted were teens,...
Helping Children With Trauma at Halloween
Trauma is all too common for many foster children whose lives have already been rocked by anger, confusion, and separation. These kids are often scared of the dark, and freaked out by thunderstorms, and shaken by loud voices and visions of monsters under their bed. At...
Baby Safety Month: How Foster Care Keeps Babies Safe
Providing foster care for a newborn is labor-intensive and demanding, but there’s great satisfaction in understanding the safety foster homes provide to vulnerable infants. Some of the youngest children in foster care have only been outside their mother’s womb for a...
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents It’s that time of year again – families are starting to get ready for summer to end and school to begin. Preparing to switch gears from the lazy, unstructured days of summer to the more defined routine of the school year can...Gallery
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