parents who live in Illinois. Our therapists offer adoption expertise and can work with all members of birth or adoptive families at any stage of life — whether the adoption was through The Cradle or not, and however the placement was made, through agencies, attorneys, foster care or kinship...
Related:Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells agencies to obey federal judge’s foster care edicts, sidestep big fines Shortly before Christmas, just five days after Jack found the state in contempt of court,Abbott wrote a letter telling the two state agencies co-managing fo...
Part 1: Education outcomes of students in foster care in California’s Public Schools. San Francisco: WestEd. Retrieved fromwww.wested.org/resources/the-invisible-achievement-gap-education-outcomes-of-students-in-foster-care-in-californias-public-schools-part-1/ ...
Youth with foster care experience are more likely than their peers outside of the system to report child maltreatment, mental illness, and inadequate social support. The interaction of these experiences likely contributes to the fact that these youth are twice as likely to engage in suicidal ideati...
whereas they accounted for only 14% of all children under the age of 18 in the USA (Child Trends Databank2015). Recent estimates indicate that African-American youth and Hispanic youth enter foster care at a rate that is anywhere between 1.1 and 3.6 times greater than their population percent...