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For LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care, Finding Home is Hard

November 26, 2018 Terry Scraggins Comments Off on For LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care, Finding Home is Hard

About three months after I first entered the foster care system at age 12, a foster parent uttered words that would stay with me for the rest of my life. “Gay people are sinners who have […]

Child Trauma

A Teen’s Guide to Healing from Parental Incarceration

November 9, 2018 Jeremy Loudenback Comments Off on A Teen’s Guide to Healing from Parental Incarceration

Anyé Young remembers the first time she went to Dave and Buster’s without her dad. The arcade was where Young and her father forged many happy memories together, a special place that Young considered “our […]

Child Welfare

If We’d Had Housing Support, Maybe I Wouldn’t Have Spent My Teen Years Locked Up

October 26, 2018 Xocheezy, as told to Katarina Kabick Comments Off on If We’d Had Housing Support, Maybe I Wouldn’t Have Spent My Teen Years Locked Up

  Xocheezy* is an 18-year-old foster youth who came of age in California’s juvenile justice system. That might have been avoided had her family ever been connected to housing support. It is not rare for […]

Child Welfare

Liberating Myself from the Chains of My Past Trauma

October 5, 2018 Missy Hart Comments Off on Liberating Myself from the Chains of My Past Trauma

  Gang member, poor kid, ward of the court, foster youth, violent felon, lost cause … Growing up I was often told who I was by the adults around me before I ever had the […]

Analysis

This Time, Oregon Foster Youth Will Ask the Questions

October 1, 2018 Jeremy Loudenback Comments Off on This Time, Oregon Foster Youth Will Ask the Questions

On Tuesday, an Oregon foster youth will be asking tough questions of the state’s candidates for governor.  Organized by Children First for Oregon, the Debate for Oregon’s Future is entirely youth led, with all questions written […]

Child Welfare

A Foster Youth’s Journey to Discover What Love Is

September 28, 2018 Gloria Lopez Comments Off on A Foster Youth’s Journey to Discover What Love Is

Love is a selfless thing. It’s affection given by someone who doesn’t desire anything in return. Love is said to be given by family but sometimes family are not by blood, but instead whom you […]

Youth Voice

Getting from Foster Care to Where I Am Today

September 21, 2018 Anna Judson Comments Off on Getting from Foster Care to Where I Am Today

Part of what amazes me about foster youth is our ability to survive and love despite the never-ending hardships that follow us. What amazes me even more is our ability to know and believe love […]

Child Welfare

Getting into College Doesn’t Always Spell Success for Foster Youth

September 17, 2018 Elexus Hunter Comments Off on Getting into College Doesn’t Always Spell Success for Foster Youth

Outside looking in, you may think foster youth got it made. In California, youth in foster care are eligible for several state and federal grants aimed at helping them succeed in college. But the truth […]

Youth Voice

Youth Voice Photo Contest: 1st Place ‘Discovering Beauty’

September 7, 2018 Guest Writer Comments Off on Youth Voice Photo Contest: 1st Place ‘Discovering Beauty’

This year, Fostering Media Connections (FMC) launched its first-ever Youth Voice photo essay contest sponsored by Walter S. Johnson Foundation and invited current and former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 24 to submit a collection of […]

Youth Voice

Youth Voice Photo Contest: 2nd Place ‘Resiliency’

September 6, 2018 Guest Writer Comments Off on Youth Voice Photo Contest: 2nd Place ‘Resiliency’

This year, Fostering Media Connections (FMC) launched its first-ever Youth Voice photo essay contest sponsored by Walter S. Johnson Foundation and invited current and former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 24 to submit a collection of […]

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