Foster Care Children, Youth and Family Issues

Foster care issues can include, but are not limited to, abuse, rights of foster parents and foster children, and negativity surrounding foster care.

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

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