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National Foster Care Youth and Alumni Policy Council

9/23/2020

Foster Youth and Alumni Speak Up for Special Groups Among Them

The Imprint staff reports

Foster youth often feel misunderstood and marginalized by society as a whole. Within the larger foster youth community, however, certain groups must deal with even more stress. Those groups, and how to help them build fulfilling lives, are the subjects of the latest set of policy recommendations by the National Foster Care Youth and Alumni Policy Council.

10/25/2019

Love as Destiny: A Former Foster Youth’s Journey in Motherhood

Opinion

Katarina Sayally

If you haven’t heard enough stories about what breaking the intergenerational cycle of foster care looks like, I want to share one. This is our story, and it’s a good one.

2/20/2018

Former Foster Youth Share Findings of Survey on Preventing Removals from Families

Kim Phagan-Hansel

In early February, the National Foster Care Youth and Alumni Policy Council hosted a webinar on its most recent policy focus on preventing unnecessary removal of children from their families. Three former foster youth – Dani Townsend, David Hall and Nico’Lee Biddle – presented the group’s findings from their survey on the subject and recommendations that will be shared with federal stakeholders.

9/14/2016

Hundreds of Foster Youth and Alumni Urge Action on Family First: Let’s Listen

Opinion

Celeste Bodner

This week over 590 youth and alumni of foster care, along with concerned stakeholders, conveyed a letter to U.S. Senate leaders calling upon the upper chamber to vote on and pass the House-approved Family First Prevention Services Act.

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