foster care Archive
Consider two approaches to working with troubled children and families. Approach #1 is embodied in a paragraph from a column in The Chronicle in which the author cites what she sees as barriers to working with children in foster care: …
It’s hard enough growing up in the world even with a supportive family and plenty of access to resources. Can you imagine how difficult the journey must be for homeless and high-risk youth? Each individual youth has their own complex …
I am 25 years old, and still learning what it means to thrive versus simply survive after transitioning out of the foster care system. At a recent foster care event, I scanned the room from where I sat, watching the …
It was 1995, and we had just started A Home Within. Seven-year-old Kelsey was one of the first foster children referred for open-ended therapy, but she was NOT happy about it. She routinely and loudly told her therapist, Dr. B, …
This story was first published in The Huffington Post on April 4. On Father’s Day weekend, I will once again don my climbing boots, grab the ice axe and head up the snowy flanks of 14,000-foot Mt. Shasta in …
House Bills Seek to Improve Out-of-state Foster Placements, Infant Welfare By Sarah Barr | March 24, 2016 WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers want to reduce the time foster youth spend waiting for a placement across state …
The problems that forced the closure of the Children and Youth Welcome Centers in Los Angeles are not limited to the state’s largest county. Though there is some variation in how California counties deal with housing the children who enter their …
March 1, 2016 Giving Foster Youth a Chance at College By Elaine Korry Growing up in Los Angeles, in a family unsettled by addiction and dysfunction, Justin Turner, 18, was convinced from an early age that college was not for …
Federal Education Law Delivers Vital Protections for Foster Youth By Rachel Velcoff Hults and Kate Burdick | February 22, 2016 Children involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems face countless barriers to educational success. Our historic failure to …
California counties will now be able to offer a therapeutic treatment model in a supportive family setting through its Medi-Cal services, thanks to an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). On February 16, CMS approved a …
