Child Welfare and Foster Care
As compared to other young adults, transition age youth (TAY) who have or will soon emancipate from foster care face enormous challenges, including how to pursue their educational needs. Many…
Read MoreHere are some key foster youth homelessness statistics that reflects upon youth in foster care who experience homelessness. National Foster Youth Homelessness Statistics 1. In the first four years after…
Read MoreHere is an overview of how the foster care process works here in California, highlighting the main steps of foster care from removal to reunification, adoption, long-term care or emancipation.…
Read MoreToday, the state of foster youth education in the United States, including in California, is substandard. But, there are ways all of us can help children and youth in foster care get the education they deserve. By investing…
Read MoreThe ongoing spread of novel coronavirus is impacting all of us, and the COVID-19 pandemic is especially effecting the foster care and child welfare system. As youth continue to be…
Read MoreCurious about what the “foster” in foster care means? Let’s unpack the term in the realm of child welfare. What does foster mean? If you look up “foster” in the dictionary,…
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