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New Jersey’s foster care system has had its own issues in the past. Former New Jersey Foster Care Scholar Stephanie Ahenkora’s placement in a shelter at age 17 echoes stories of YIP – it was a transitional home for foster youth leaving the juvenile detention center across the street. Fo...
Ramapo College of New Jersey Children in Foster Care Speak Up Identifying the Authors Sharon Kollar‚ Jessica Strolin-Golzman and Joann Trinkle wrote a journal entry titled‚ “Listening to Voice of Children in Foster Care: Youths speak out about child welfare workforce turnover and selection....
Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting.
Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting in the state of Kentucky.
If you live in New Jersey and are interested in becoming a foster parent,click here. If you live elsewhere in the U.S. and are interested in becoming a foster parent, pleasevisit this directorysearch or contact your local foster care agency....
Aiden’s* father pushes him to the attorney representing NYC’s governing child protective services agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (“ACS”), and a caseworker for the agency that’s been assigned the care and responsibility of Aiden and his siblings. “Fine, if you aren’...
This year the data suggests that nationwide, the number of youth in care is going down, and so is the number of licensed foster homes. Across the nation, the reliance on relatives continues to grow in many systems as the use of group homes and residential care declines. ...
But there is a growing recognition that children need more support when they leave foster care. Seven states (Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona and Oregon) have now passed laws to help children keep their federal benefits – although a similar bill in California was...
Article on child specific adoption from foster care in the United States with specific information on the process in the state of New Jersey.