Foster Care

Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers “”age out”” of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for [...]

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Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with 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; [...]

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 […]

Overview of the current state of foster care. Author: University of Nebrasks Press in Assoc. with the ChISBN: 5041Count: 1

When child care worker Tamara Britton is asked to temporarily take 14-year-old foster child Sienna Larson into her home, she agrees–but only because it’s temporary. Soon, Tamara finds [...]