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Prom Night 2016!

Tonight is prom night for youth in the STARS program!

Let's keep foster care youth in prayer all the more, now that school is out for many!

May is National Foster Care Month. It is a time to uplift our foster children who are in foster care through no fault of their own. It is also a time to honor the dedicated men and women who readily accept and nurture the children in our state’s foster care system.

Read more:
http://dhr.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=10513

Alabama Department of Human Resources - News Item

This goes without saying.

Study Finds Foster Youth Fare Better When They Receive Care Until 21 Maria Serrano couldn’t wait to leave foster care behind when she turned 18 two years ago. “I didn’t want anything to do with the system,” she said. In foster care...

Prayers that good people will step up to become foster parents for the children in need.

AL needs more foster parents for 5,000 children in foster care system Five thousand children are currently in the Alabama foster care system. It's a startling number to think about as we're in the midst of national foster care month.

Studies vary, but about 25% of children who age out of foster care experience homelessness. These young adults often leave the system without a network and without a family. Pray for these young adults aging out of foster care. Specifically pray for them to find a support network or family.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/28/half-of-this-school-s-students-are-homeless-or-in-foster-care-82-go-to-college.html

Half of This School’s Students Are Homeless or in Foster Care. 82% Go to College. At Broome Street Academy, 77 percent of students are classified as ‘economically disadvantaged.’ But almost everybody goes on to college. How?

The secret to fixing the foster care system lies in the voices of the youth. When you put a group of foster youth in a room together to talk about the system, you get a very dynamic dialogue.


https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/16704/16704

Fixing Foster Care: The Power of Youth Voice The secret to fixing the foster care system lies in the voices of the youth. When you put a group of foster youth in a room together to talk about...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6-things-i-wish-you-knew-_b_9469710.html

6 Things I Wish You Knew About Foster Care I admit it freely. Before I was a foster parent, I knew very little about the foster care system. Like so many in society, I had misconceptions about ...

Catch the generosity: Give to My Father's House Foundation and help foster youth aging out of foster care learn independent living skills to make it on their own.

http://www.myfathershousefoundation.org/donate!.html