Foster Care

Special challenges face vulnerable populations during the transition to adulthood: foster care youth, special education students, Author: Osgood, Wayneand Foster, Michael and Flanagan, Constance; [...]

Family court is where teens find out whether they will be placed in foster care, remain there, or be returned to their families. In this booklet, young writers describe the […]

A chronicle of a bright girl named Shirley Wilder and the dogged lawyer, Marcia Lowry who tried to find her a home. Shirley had a son Lamont born when she […]

Many teens in care were sexually abused. This collection includes first-person accounts by both male and female survivors. All grapple with fear, shame, and guilt, and thse difficult feelings are [...]

Here’s a superb model of foster care that shows how to create kinship groups to support families during times of crisis. This video tells the compelling story of a birth […]

This guide supplements the DVD – Listening to Birth Families – Forming Kinship Groups. Author: Fahlberg, VeraAdditional Author: Northwest Media, IncISBN: F 5076Count: 1

The messge conveyed in this workbook full of fun activities (40) teach children how to express their feelings in a positive way, how to avoid bad influences, how to respect […]

This booklet features stories by teens who have had positive experiences in foster care. They describe models of what teens consider to be ‘best practice””. Author: Multiple [...]

Based on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals and educators prepare young people from foster care academically, financially, and emotionally for [...]

Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals prepare young people to find, get, and keep housing. It’s My Life: Housing was published in […]