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 ...
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 ...
WUNC

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 ...
KAIT

Former foster shares importance of teen adoptions

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) — Nona Saulnier entered foster care at 17 along with her two younger siblings and aged out in August after turning 21. In a K8 News interview, she emphasized how crucial it is ...