Foster Care Children, Youth and Family Issues


A collection of resources including organizations and publications that focuses on foster youth leading social change. Based in Olympia, Washington.








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Casey Family Programs* - Providing direct services for children and youth, with a focus on foster care. Programs, resources, and media center.

  • Youth Leadership Advisory Team - Information for youth in foster care in the state of issues Maine, including advice about rights and responsibilities. Written by issues a group of young people in foster care.
  • Family to Family Initiative - An initiative funded by the Annie E. Casey children, youth and children, youth and family family Foundation to provide child welfare agencies with a children, youth children, youth and family and family foster care system that is neighborhood-based, family-focused, and children, children, youth and family youth and family culturally sensitive.
  • Foster Survivor - Online home for foster care survivors. Essays, foster foster care care stories, guestbook, and links to other foster foster care care sites.
  • Foster Youth: HHS Actions Could Improve Coordination of Services and Monitoring of States' Independent Living Programs - A GAO report on the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which increased the allocation of federal funds for independent living programs from $70 million to $140 million.[PDF]
  • NeedyKids.com - Contains resources, news, and articles on the growing issues need of foster care, problems in the system, issues the homeless and child abuse.
  • Youth Who Chronically AWOL from Foster Care - A study on adolescents who leave foster care children, youth and children, youth and family family without permission.[PDF]
  • Foster Children and Education - Offers simple, inexpensive lessons and tools that can foster care enhance issues the educational experience of children in foster foster care care.[PDF]
  • Alaska Center for Resource Families - Provides training, support, and information to foster and children, youth and foster care family adoptive parents in Alaska. Newsletter, foster parent services, children, youth foster care and family and adoption services.
  • National Foster Care Month - Presents activities designed to promote National Foster Care Month. Posters foster care and graphics, ribbon campaign, and information for the media.
  • Fostering Results - Examines federal funding options that can help place foster children issues in permanent homes, and seeks to improve court oversight of issues child welfare cases. News and research publications.
  • Youth Advocacy Center - Helps young adults in or at-risk of foster children, youth and issues family care take control of their lives. Getting Beyond children, youth issues and family the System seminar, reports, and news.
  • Orphan Foundation of America - A nonprofit organization that advocates for and provides children, youth and foster care family services to foster teens. Information on scholarships, children, youth foster care and family virtual mentoring program, and donation opportunities.
  • Foster Care Ombudsman Program of California - Provides an avenue for foster youth to file issues complaints regarding children, youth and family their placement, care and services without issues fear of retribution. Hotline, children, youth and family fact sheets, and information issues on health insurance for foster youth.
  • National Adoption Day - A collective national (USA) effort to raise awareness of the foster care children in foster care waiting to find permanent families.
  • Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative - Seeks to improve outcomes for youth leaving foster issues care by children, youth and family developing youth leadership boards and community issues partnership boards. Resources, community children, youth and family partnerships, and legislative updates.
  • Social Justice By and For Foster Youth - A collection of resources including organizations and publications foster care that issues focuses on foster youth leading social change. foster care Based in issues Olympia, Washington.
  • National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning - Provides training, technical assistance, and information to child issues welfare agencies. children, youth and family News, publications, statistics, and state contacts.
  • UN: Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with special reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally - Adopted by General Assembly resolution 41/85 of 3 children, youth and children, youth and family family December 1986. In English, French, and Spanish.
  • Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies - An association that uses advocacy and education to enhance foster foster care care, adoption, family preservation, and special education services in New foster care York State.
  • Utah Foster Care Foundation - Serves Utah\\'s children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care.
  • Foster Care Adoption in the United States: A State-by-State Analysis of Barriers & Promising Approaches - A report of the National Adoption Day Coalition issues and the issues Urban Institute that examines barriers to issues the adoption process for issues foster children and potential issues solutions.[PDF]
  • Foster Care Alumni of America - Connects the estimated 12 million adults that share foster care the children, youth and family foster care experience to create a powerful, foster care collective voice children, youth and family to improve foster care.


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