Two Percent Ain't Good Enough
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.
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.
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
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 ...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
The question must be floated: can we as a society be engaged in privatizing our children?
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
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.
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
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.
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
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.
Lainey Shany | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
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.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
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.
Lissa Coffey | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
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.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
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...
Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears
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.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
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.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
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?
Nia Vardalos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
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.
David Ambroz | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
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?
Jane Devin | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
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.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
So who loses if McCain and Palin win? We all do. America does. If you are on the fence still, think hard about that.
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
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.
David Ambroz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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.
USA Today | Wendy Koch | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living