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June 3, 2021 First Star CEO Lyndsey Wilson appears on NewsNation PRIME and weighs in on the tragic police shooting involving runaway foster children in Florida (story). Noting that foster youth are retraumatized in group homes where they are more likely to test lower in school, less likely to complete high school, and are more [...]
Foster care crisis: More kids are entering, but fewer families are willing to take them in NBC Article 12-30-20 By Char Adams The nation’s foster care system has been especially overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, with experts and state agencies saying more children are entering the system, and fewer families are willing to take them in [...]
February 17, 2020: Shaquille O'Neal attended the premier of Foster Boy at the Pan African Film Festival on Monday night. While there he met students from the First Star UCLA Bruin Guardian Scholars Academy. Shaq is focused on bringing awareness to the foster care system as the executive producer of “Foster Boy,” a film [...]
https://www.record-courier.com/news/20191226/kent-state-to-help-children-in-foster-care-get-to-college By EILEEN MCCLORY Reporter Kent State University’s resolution for 2020 is to help children in the foster care system in northeast Ohio realize they can succeed once they age out of the system, usually at age 18 or 21. Eighth-graders who have been placed into foster care and have been affected by the opioid [...]
First Star' makes college real for kids in foster care By Christine Devine 8/20/19 Back to school means continued college prep time for an unlikely group of high school seniors like Khalia, with higher education in mind. Thanks to a non-profit called First Star youth in foster care have been groomed for college since the [...]
TO STRENGTHEN PATH TO ADULTHOOD FOR STATE’S FOSTER YOUTH ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Funding Will Support New Sacramento-Based Site for First Star Academies, Groundbreaking Program Guiding Foster Youth to College, Careers ________________________________________________________________________________________________ SACRAMENTO and LOS ANGELES, CA (June 28, 2019) -- A groundbreaking educational program that is providing California’s foster youth the critical preparation they need to transition [...]
WellCare Donates $500,000 to First Star’s Groundbreaking Educational Program for Foster Youth Advancing Better Lives for Foster Youth in Arizona PHOENIX and TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 12, 2018) — In Arizona and elsewhere, all too often young people in foster care lack opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they need to navigate the [...]
#SpursInUSA #GlobalFootballDevelopment #Foundation 29 July 2018|Tottenham Hotspur Five of our players paid a surprise visit to a special coaching session for local foster children's project First Star in Los Angeles on Friday. Forty children from the project and their mentors joined our Global Football Development team for the session at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), our training base [...]
Lois M. Collins Deseret News March 30, 2017 SALT LAKE CITY — States remove abused and neglected children from dangerous or troubling situations every day and place them in foster care, promising to keep them safe. That doesn’t mean the children are promised an especially bright future. Statistics are disheartening, despite the good intentions and [...]
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