Foster youth are often denied access to adequate educational and residential programs that meet their unique needs within a supportive environment. The damaging effects of growing up in foster care without those needs met are staggering: high rates of young parenthood, unemployment, homelessness, inadequate health insurance, reliance on public assistance, severe mental illness and incarceration. [...]
First Star Greater Washington Academy students toured the George Washington University campus, a place they will call home starting in the summer of 2013. For four weeks, students will learn what it's like to be a real college student by living on campus, taking a real college class for credit and navigating their schedules and [...]
First Star UCLA Summer Guardian Academy Foster youth are often denied access to adequate educational and residential programs that meet their unique needs within a supportive environment. The damaging effects of growing up in foster care without those needs met are staggering: high rates of young parenthood, unemployment, homelessness, inadequate health insurance, reliance on public [...]
April 11, 2013 NEW YORK, April 11, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its focus on assisting vulnerable youth making the transition to adulthood, BNY Mellon has published a new report about the challenges of youth aging out of foster care, an issue that affects more than 25,000 young people in the United States [...]
April 4, 20113 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A failure among Oklahoma's judiciary, police and social services agencies to communicate in a timely manner about children in the state's care has had "serious consequences" including injuries and deaths, according to a panel reviewing child abuse and neglect cases from the Department of Human Services' files.
March 12, 2013 In more than two decades as a child-abuse pediatrician, Dr. Lynn Sheets has noticed a trend. Often, when a seriously abused child arrives, perhaps with broken bones or head trauma, she looks back at medical records and finds that the same child often sustained minor bruises as an infant.
March 27, 2013 UTSA counselors have proposed a standardized and methodical tool to guide counselors, social workers and clinicians who treat children at a risk of maltreatment.
March 19, 2013 This month marks the third anniversary since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Despite the ongoing partisan rancor surrounding the bill's implementation, there is at least one provision Congress should be able to find common ground around: making sure we protect the ability of young adults [...]
March 11, 2013 Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) re-introduced a bill that will take important steps towards ensuring that parents and legal guardians are afforded legal representation in all stages of a child welfare case.