Why the holidays can be hard and how to make them better
Many youth in foster care experience the holidays as stressful. Foster care alum Jamerika Haynes-Lewis shares her perspective and offers six tips for making youth feel included.
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Parenting as a team: foster and adoptive parents share what they have learned
How might adopting or foster parenting affect your relationship?
How parents can build trust: what 3 foster and adoptive families have found
How can you demonstrate your trustworthiness to a teen who has experienced foster care? Here’s advice from three sets of foster and adoptive parents.
A “nerve-racking” choice on their minds for two decades, then taking the leap to adopt
Discover Nikki and Mike’s greatest joys and the biggest misconception about adoption from foster care.
Adoptive families highlight the need for adopting teens in new public service advertisements
Real parents and youth share about their adoption journeys—In. Their. Own. Words.
I know first-hand the importance of sibling relationships in foster care
I’m sharing my experience so that current foster families understand how important it is to keep siblings connected to each other.