Ryann Blackshere

Kayla Kreis, at age six, was a bully.

At school she had been acting out on her anger and frustration over her life's instability. She bounced around family members' homes before being adopted.

Her adoptive mother, Donna Stapleton, who had cared for Kayla, her twin sister and younger brother while...

Looming changes to the Federal Pell Grant Program will jeopardize the college prospects of former foster youth, who often start toward higher education with no academic credentials and high financial needs.

A budget deal reached by Congress in December maintained the amount of the Pell grants, but will...

College students excitedly anticipate opening their mailboxes to find care packages filled with food, school supplies, and other college essentials sent from mom and dad.

But for students who grew up in foster care, the care packages don't often come.

Alliant Credit Union, based in Illinois, teamed...

This Monday, January 30, 150 current and former foster youth will converge on the Capitol building in Sacramento, CA, to advocate for their rights, an example of a broadening foster youth-led political movement laying roots across the nation.

In an advocacy effort that would impress K Street lobbyists, members...

What do you do when your high school hardly challenges you academically? What do you do when you attend community college and try ten times to pass algebra and four times to pass English? What do you do when you feel you will never succeed academically? If you're Maurissa Sorensen,...

Vanessa Diffenbaugh's new novel, The Language of Flowers, echoes the experience of one foster youth who found a measure of joy in a community garden in Western Massachusetts.

At 12 years old, Deja Eddington was too shy to talk about her past. Moving to a new community in Massachusetts...