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Two Percent Ain't Good Enough

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Education, California, Children, Usc, Public Education, Foster Care, Los Angeles, Relationships, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

Within 18 months of leaving the system, 1/4 of children in foster care will have been incarcerated, 1/5 will have experienced homelessness and 1/3 will suffer major depression.

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Florida Nonprofit Treats Needy Children To Costumes

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Foster Children, Foster Care, Donations, Children, Clothing Donations, Halloween Costumes, Children's Charities, Impact News

For many families this year, Halloween costumes will be yet another luxury to forgo. However, trick-or-treating will be made possible for many thanks ...

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The Privatization of Our Children

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: California, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Rural America, Children, Non-Profits, Privatization, Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Children's Health, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

The question must be floated: can we as a society be engaged in privatizing our children?

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The Happiness Doctrine

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Jim McDermott, House Ways and Means Committee, Children's Health, Children, Foster Care, Education, Congress, Child Care, Happiness, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

A new law is an amalgam of many of the best thoughts to be found in the foster care advocacy community and hinges on a common-sense yet revolutionary idea: that happiness is just as important as safety.

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Learning to Be a Man

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Mentors, Volunteering, Mary Landrieu, Children, Rosie O'Donnell, Foster Care, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

It is hard for boys to become men when they don't have any in their lives. For John, the Chris I know and Andrade the difference can be a male role model, a mentor.

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The Fight to Make Well-Being a Foster Child's Right

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Los Angeles Foster System, Foster Care, Fostering-Connections-to-Success-and-Increasing-Adoptions-Act, Teenagers, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

Roughly 4,000 foster youth age out of California's foster care system every year. For most their 18th birthday is not so much a day of celebration as one of total isolation.

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A Case in Race: A Case in Foster Care

Lainey Shany | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, Children, Foster Care, Race in America, Glen Beck, Politics News
Lainey Shany

Let's face it. While we wait for our children to change our world, we taint them in the process. In doing so, we undercut whatever advantage they might have to make things right.

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All Children Are Our Children

Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Uganda, Foster Care, Volunteering, Charity, Children, India, Giving, Usa, Congo, Adoption, Living News
Lissa Coffey

More and more we are learning that we live in a global community. Because of the internet and ease of travel, it's easier for us to reach out and help children not only in our hometowns, but around the world.

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For One Lost Boy, There's No Place Like Home

Tamar Abrams | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Arlington-Virginia, Foster Care, Foster Parent, Child Welfare, Children, Social Worker, Living News
Tamar Abrams

What kind of promises could I make to a boy who just wanted to go home? He wanted to be with the people he loved, even if they hurt him.

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Time Well Spent: Volunteering in the Foster Care System

Lissa Coffey | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Services, Foster Care, Time, Volunteering, Foster Homes, Children, Casa, Volunteer, Living News
Lissa Coffey

Vedic philosophy says that the three most important things we can give our children are attention, affection, and time. The children in the foster care system are starved for all three.

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Letting Go of a Foster Baby, with Great Reluctance

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Foster Parents, Foster Care, Judges, Baby, Arlington-Virginia, Social-Workers, Justice, Guardian Ad Litem, Family Court, Living News
Tamar Abrams

Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...

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Shalita O'Neale Pays it Forward

Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Leadership, Shalita O'Neale, Leaders, Run DMC, Child Abuse, Child Watch, Children, Adopt, No Child Left Behind, Rock, Thought Leaders, Foster Care, Children's Health, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Adoption, Eyes & Ears News
Timothy Cooper

Youth should be sitting around the table with the policy and decision-makers, as no one knows the foster care system better than the youth who've lived in it.

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National Foster Care Month

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Foster Care, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, Living News
Marian Wright Edelman

May is National Foster Care Month, a good time to reflect on the progress we can make in improving the lives of children in foster care by implementing the Fostering Connections Act.

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Not in My Backyard? Puh-leeeeze!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, County Government, Nature Centers, Budget Cuts, Neighborhoods, Libraries, Economy, Arlington-Virginia, Foster Care, Cwla, Econmic Crisis, Books, Reading, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

We are blessed with many community-based libraries, all within a few miles of one another in North Arlington. Would it really be such an inconvenience to cut the hours of one?

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The List

Nia Vardalos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Candy, Lawyers, Americans, Dads, Humor, Children, Canadians, United States, New Year's Commentary, Parenting, January, Gay Adoption, Adoption Within the Us, Canada, Joy, Happiness, Adoption, New Year's Resolutions, National Adoption Day, Kids, New Year's Resolution, The Alliance for Children's Rights, Moms, Excitement, Pro Bono, M&m's, Foster Care, November, Parents, Living News
Nia Vardalos

A common misconception about adoption is that to get a kid you just have to go to another country and be as pretty as Angelina Jolie. As studio executives and movie reviewers have informed me again and again, I'm not.

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The Exploitation of Children By The "Pro-Family" Agenda In Arkansas

David Ambroz | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glbt, Foster Parents, Gay Foster Parents, Gay Adoption, Foster Care, Civil Rights, Arkansas, Yes on Prop 8, Prop 8, 2008 Election, Gay Marriage, Arkansas Adoption Laws, Politics News
David Ambroz

How is keeping youth out of loving homes pro-family or pro-child? And, what sort of message does this send to GLBT youth in foster care?

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In Defense of the 2009 (and Beyond) Dream

Jane Devin | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Religious Right, Religion and Politics, Civil Rights, American Dream, Politics, Obama Hope, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Orphans, President Obama, Obama Administration, 2008 Presidential Election, Obama White House, Obama Change, Obama Change We Can Believe In, Obama Presidency, Idealism, Foster Care, Politics News
Jane Devin

If we can dream it, it is possible. A battle to revitalize the human spirit requires no enemies, and a revolution of peace requires no violence.

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Memo to Voters Still on the Fence

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Foster Care, John McCain, Children's Insurance, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Economic Crisis, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

So who loses if McCain and Palin win? We all do. America does. If you are on the fence still, think hard about that.

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Obama's Coming Battle With Conscience

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Foster Care, Conscience Exceptions, Faith-Based Initiatives, Homosexual Parents, Prescription Drugs, Safe Sex, Hospitals, Condoms, Aids, Barack Obama, Adoption, Politics News
Angela Bonavoglia

Faith-based institutions have done an enormous amount to improve people's lives, but determining how to support that work in a country that values the separation of church and state is no easy matter.

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From Foster Care To Foundation Director

David Ambroz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Growing Up in the Foster Sytem, Foster Care, Foster Care Abuse, David Ambroz, Foster Youth, The Giving Life, Living News
David Ambroz

I wanted to show people the plight of my fellow suffering foster youth. I wanted to take care of my mother, I wanted a brother and sister who themselves did not want for anything. I wanted clothes with no holes; I wanted a home, a family.

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Study: Parents Of Foster Kids Don't Get Enough Funds

USA Today | Wendy Koch | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Foster Parents, Middle Class, Foster Care, Business News

Most states pay foster parents far less than what middle-income families spend to raise their children, says a report out today by University of Maryl...

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