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Mallory is going to be a high school senior in the fall, but before she does that, she’s got a busy summer. The DCFS foster child, who is also on...

Education
Higher education

I think that if you want to succeed you need to make the correct choices in life. Because life is all about the choices you make on a daily basics...

Education

Seaside Signal, June 11, 2009, Seaside, OR -- Seaside Heights Elementary School students Caden Carr, Emma Dutcher, and Lucy Bodner collected 849 books recently for FosterClub to distribute to children...

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By Lindsey Shelton, The Crimson White, Apr 30, 2009 --

There are over 5,000 children in foster care in Alabama, and many of those children do not receive the typical...

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The following story was featured in the Fall 2009 Issue of The Connection Magazine, from CASA Download Original Story

From my birth, being gay has been against my family’s way...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth

2009 FosterClub All-Star Kita Anderson wrote the following piece for the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) Going to graduate school to achieve my dream of becoming a social worker...

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Family relationships

The books below are good reads about foster care from the youth perspective. They might be about someone's foster care experience, about the system, or maybe just written by someone...

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The Miseducation Of Foster Youth When group home teachers expect the worst By Ja'Nelle E. When I went to high school in the group home, our curriculum consisted of watching...

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How Care Can Help or Hurt Our Education By Natalie K. I was in the 7th grade when my single mother died and I was put into foster care. Before...

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