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ARTICLE TAG
5/27/2020
Chronicle Staff
There are many organizations out there whose mission is to help serve children in foster care. On Friday, FosterStrong joins the fray with a unique goal and perspective: To create a media platform for foster youth and alumni to proudly tell their stories their own way.
10/2/2018
April Dinwoodie
The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) is a five-year project designed to promote permanence when reunification is no longer a goal and improve adoption and guardianship preservation and support.
8/21/2017
Opinion
Jim Kenny
Our child-oriented culture of the 1950s has changed and the foster care system has failed to adjust. The result is a decline in available foster homes. Headlines like these throughout the U.S.
2/16/2017
Noel Anaya “aged out” of the system after 20 years in foster care. He was 21. At his final court hearing, he read a compelling statement about how he felt the California foster care system had failed him.
2/29/2016
Imagine yourself without a permanent job, taking part-time work to provide a bare-survival income, constantly aware that the job is temporary. Or imagine that you have a full-time job, but there are continuing rumors you may be laid off.
2/16/2016
Healing attachment disorders is a popular topic in foster care. My workshops on the subject have been well attended. Why does foster care produce so many attachment disorders in the first place?
6/9/2015
Georgette Todd
I was 25 years old when I experienced my first flat tire. I had only been driving for four years at that point since, in my day, foster children weren’t allowed to get licenses.
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12/23/2014
Mira Zimet
Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of former foster youth. At some point during the interview, the question of love, or “why not love,” comes up.