NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The crisis in Tennessee youth aging out of foster care is being highlighted in a new study done by Belmont University’s Innovation Labs. The study called “Every Child ...
The title of Lola Young’s memoir refers to the tender age she was when put into foster care, but Eight Weeks’s subtitle neatly defines her mission: “Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds”.
The title of Lola Young’s memoir refers to the tender age she was when put into foster care, but Eight Weeks’s subtitle neatly defines her mission: “Looking Back, Moving Forwards ...
Foster care is (in theory) temporary, while adoption is permanent. Children enter foster care when their birth parents are unable to care for them; this may be because of abuse, neglect, addiction ...
At 16, Mendez was put into foster care, living with a relative. “I was just in a very vulnerable state,” she said. “I was lost. I didn’t know what the future held for me.” She began to ...
"In foster care you feel underrated, you want to prove them wrong. But we can’t do that without foster carers," a former foster child has said. Alex Ambrosio was a refugee from Angola when he ...
Jodie Armstrong, 39, and her wife Holly, 34, have been fostering Lauren who is 13 years-old with Orange Grove Foster Care since the start of the year. The pair are looking forward to sharing the ...
Cookson, 56, who grew up in foster care, is now a house dad at the home, which provides residential services to children from birth to age 18 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse ...