NFYI hosted the Inland Empire Roundtable
The National Foster Youth Institute recently hosted the Inland Empire Policy Roundtable with the UC Riverside Guardian Scholars Program. The NFYI’s newly named Executive Director, Jenny Vinopal, and Kenyon Lee Whitman, Program Director for UCR Guardian Scholars moderated the panel. Check out the gallery for more! About the UC Riverside Guardian Scholars Program Operated under the Office […]
WV struggles with increase in foster children | News | herald-dispatch.com
CHARLESTON – More than 6,100 children are in the West Virginia foster care system as of October and the number keeps growing, according to the acting Bureau for Children and Families commissioner Linda Watts.Watts spoke Tuesday morning to the Joint Commission of Children and Families and told legislators that number had increased in just a […]
Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate
A two-year investigation finds shocking indifference to the fates of neglected children in for-profit group homes. Source: Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate
Q&A with Rep. Karen Bass: Engaging Youth, Educating Congress
Since coming to Washington, D.C. in 2010, Los Angeles Congresswoman Karen Bass has fast become one of the House’s lead champions on child welfare issues. Her first major piece of legislation, the Uninterrupted Scholars Act, was signed into law in 2013 and allows for caregivers to access education records of foster youth to help guide […]
CYFD brings on former clients to help teens
If you’ve never lived in a foster home or spent time in a juvenile detention center, it’s hard to understand what life is like for kids who do. That’s why the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is now hiring interns who’ve had those experiences. “I can see what’s worked for people in my […]
This Amazing Young Man Advocates For Other Foster Youth And LGBTQ People | HuffPost
“Look what I’m doing. You can do it too.” In this RaiseAChild “Let Love Define Family®” series installment for Huff Post Queer Voices, contributing writer Danielle Lescure introduces us to a former foster youth who aims to inspire and help others. Dominque ‘Domo’ Ross, 24, is all about positivity. He listens to podcasts and Joel […]