Foster Dads Making It Work Across the country, foster fathers are doing all they can for their kids. pdf

Reports on Recruiting and Retaining Foster Parents
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released two reports identifying the challenges in recruiting and retaining foster parents and offering its findings and recommendations. More

Learning from Each Other
Sonia M. is a licensed foster care provider. Today she is something more: an adoptive mother. Meet Sonia's Family.

Foster Care Alumni of America: Destined to Serve
Are you ready to break out of the mold, set a new course and build a strong and lasting heritage for our children? Yes, of course, many of us could be guests on the next Oprah Winfrey Show, sharing the horror stories of our childhood. We could become passionate, angry foster alumni who hate the system that tried to help better our future. But in doing so, we would do a disservice to millions of kids.More

My Foster Daughter Kept Me Feeling Young (pdf)

500 Attend Foster Parent Conference (pdf)

Earned Income Tax Credits Help (pdf)

Youth Who 'Age Out' of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects
If foster children in general are a population at risk, youth aging out of the foster care system may be even more so. Child Trends charts the trends in foster care, racial and ethnic disparities among the foster care population and characteristics of young adults aging out of the foster care system. It also offers program and policy options for reducing the numbers and supporting youth of all ages.

To view the full report, visit childtrends.org.

What Keeps Children in Foster Care from Succeeding in School? Views of Early Adolescents and the Adults in Their Lives
A large portion of the half million children in foster care nationwide perform poorly in school. They lag behind their non-foster peers academically and are more likely to have behavior and discipline problems. This study draws on interviews with foster children and adults to better understand how being in foster care affects a child's education and how the adults can help them perform more successfully.
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