Heyyyyy! Ready for an epic event that's all about taking care of young peoples' mental health in the coolest ways possible? Oregon 2024 Summit: Mental Health Reimagined is a 1-day...
Three Lived Experience (LEx) Leaders advocated for improved mental health services for youth involved in foster care and/or juvenile justice at a Policy Lab last month. The lab brought together...
What are these new guidelines? The new SNAP guidelines say that if you were in foster care at age 18 and are now under age 25, you may qualify food...
LEx Leaders Prove Power of Peer Support at Conference on Transitioning Out of Care Transitioning out of care is hard. But the four Lived Experience (LEx) Leaders and three FosterClub...
When the school year winds down, FosterClub Lived Experience (LEx) Leaders are just getting started advocating for foster care reform, empowering their peers, and of course, having fun in the...
The National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council had the pleasure of meeting with key stakeholders from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) last week! Commissioner Jones-Gaston, Associate...
An Oregon summit will bring together young people with lived experience and field stakeholders for a day of thought-leadership, information-sharing and generating solutions for the future. If you are not...
The application period for the Outstanding Young Leader award is now open! FosterClub’s Outstanding Young Leaders recognition award and scholarship program is for incredible young people whose brilliance and resilience...
In recent years, there’s been an influx in conversations around Gender Affirming Care. As some activists fight to ensure all youth have access to Gender Affirming Care, some states work...
This week, the National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council engaged with newly confirmed Administration of Children, Youth & Families Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston and Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner...