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How A Caring Teen Ensured Cozy Bedtimes For 180 Foster Kids
A teenager devoted his high school senior project to improving the lives of foster children with a special way of making them feel more at home.
Why We Opened Our Home to More Than 40 Foster Kids
You hear a lot of bad stories about the system — now it's time for some good ones.
How You Can Help Foster Kids By Buying a Bag
Local Brentwood Mom Created My Bag My Story to Help Local Foster Kids.
How to bond with foster kids (according to a foster kid) — Just As Special
As a former foster child and a master of blowing out of homes, I can say that the attachment piece of therapy is perhaps the most important part of making a home successful.<br>Without a secure attachment, children do not feel safe. If a child does not feel safe, they will act out and thus, inevitabl
Aging out: Helping foster kids become adults
What Books To Read With Your Foster Kid
Ever wonder what books to read with your foster kid? Check out our list below!
Many Foster Kids Inappropriately Prescribed Psych Drugs
A new report finds that foster children are often given powerful psychiatric medicines without regard for proper safeguards.
When Foster Kids are not Fine * Our Good Life
kids entering foster care are not fine, even if the case workers tell you so. they have been removed from their normal and are struggling to figure out where they fit.
Antipsychotics for Foster Kids: Most Commonly Prescribed Meds
Mounting evidence now suggests that children in foster care are more likely to take multiple antipsychotic medications for longer periods of time than any other group of children. These types of medications include stimulants, antidepressants and mood stabilizers.
Adoption days become "beary" sweet for foster kids
Adoption days just became “beary" sweet for children in foster care.
More Than One In Four Foster Kids Miss Required Checkups
Although children in foster care have often suffered neglect or abuse, 29 percent failed to receive at least one required medical screening, according to an inspector general’s report.
Many foster kids were drugged without oversight: report
Many foster kids are being prescribed dangerous psychotropic cocktails — with little monitoring or oversight
Giving foster kids roots so they can grow wings
For many young adults, turning 18 means independence and the start of their adult life. But for those in foster care, turning 18 can be a time of uncertainty and turmoil.
Why Every Foster Kid Should Have an 'Electronic Backpack'
Having a digital warehouse to hold foster kids' health and education records eases their many transitions from one home to another and makes it easier to apply for jobs and college. But few places have them.
Opinion/Column: Ask what you can do for foster kids
Child Abuse & Foster Care: Are We Doing All We Can?
Woman fosters kids who have experienced trauma to help get them adopted
Marvin Funches is a specially trained therapeutic foster mom. She helps kids who've experienced trauma get adopted or be reunited with their families.
4 tips on finding the right adoption & foster care support group for you
Adopting and doing foster care can be lonely in the world-at-large. Very few people know what it’s like to adopt, they don’t know about bonding or attachment issues, they don’t kn…
10 Tips for Foster Parents
The need for foster parents is constant. There are always children in need of loving and safe foster parents to help them heal from circumstances beyond their control. By entering into the world of foster care parenting, you are giving a child a gift that cannot adequately be described through words. A similar wordlessness arises […]
Becoming a Foster Parent: How to Make it Work
Being a foster family is a very specific situation, unlike any other, you are supposed to love a child as your own, but only for a while. Ho...
