WBIW

Foster Success awarded $400,000 Springboard Prize for Child Welfare to expand credit build program

Foster Success has been awarded a $400,000 Springboard Prize for Child Welfare to expand its innovative Credit Build Program, ...
Kentucky Today

Sunrise Children’s Services welcomes foster-to-adopt family

Of the more than 340,000 children in foster care in the U.S., there are approximately 110,000 waiting to be adopted. The need ...
WYFF

President Trump signs foster care executive order, Upstate program reacts

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THURSDAY TO PROVIDE MORE RESOURCES TO FOSTER CARE YOUTH. AND THIS ORDER IS PART OF FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP’S BE BEST INITIATIVE, AND IT ESTABLISHES ...
Billy Penn

‘A long bridge’: These programs can help foster care youth attend — and succeed at — college

Foster care youth are oftentimes less likely to receive an education beyond high school than their peers. These Pa. programs ...
Iowa Public Radio

The percentage of foster youth who earn degrees is low. A program aims to change that

People who grew up in foster care earn college degrees at rates far lower than the general population. A program in Virginia for former foster youth aims to change that. Its goal is to support college ...
Gotham Gazette

Out of Foster Care -- and Into What?

When Chimore Mack Glover recently turned 21, she aged out of the New York City foster child program and so needed a place to live. "I usually plan things ahead of time, and my first step was to get a ...
The Advocate

The transition from foster care is a harsh experience for some, but the safety net is expanding

Every year, more than 100 18-year-olds age out of Louisiana's foster care system, meaning they have no permanent home or source of care, and they often face devastating challenges. Samantha ...