This book offers a set of tools for preparing youth from foster care to take advantage of education and training opportunities beyond the high school level. Additional Author: Casey Family […]
Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide to employment and career development helps child welfare professionals prepare young people for success in the workplace. It’s My [...]
The first few stories examine teens fantasies and hesitations about adoption. In the final stories, teens write about their actual experiences and struggles living in a new home. Taken together, [...]
Many foster teens become parents at an early age. Here they write about the conflicts and burdens of parenthood, about challenges faced and overcome, and how they have grown as […]
Description “We hear from parents who struggled with the drug. We show that crack wasn’t a death sentence for every parent or family. And we show, from the inside, the […]
Applying to college, and succeeding once they get there, can be two enormous hurdles for foster youth. Many are intimidated by higher education for personal and financial reasons. They may […]
On of the most painful parts of living in foster care is the lack of permanence. Too many kids are moved from placement to placement. Adding to the problem is […]
In these personal stories, teens write about facing (and resolving) a variety of conflicts with foster parents. They reveal how their family histories influence their attitudes toward the foster [...]
In these stories, teens write about what they like about their group homes and what makes them work. These writers don’t sugarcoat the difficulties of group home life, but they […]
One’s life is changed forever when a parent dies. In this booklet, six foster teens describe the death or a father or mother (or of both parents) They write about […]
