Grad looks ahead | Tulsa World
One year ago, Walker was one of nearly 500 teenagers to age out of Oklahoma’s foster care system. Two-thirds didn’t have a diploma. Only one-third of them will get one this year.
Her mother is a drug addict. Her father “wants to do his own thing.”
At a young age, Jazzi was sent to live with relatives, moving between households and never feeling a sense of belonging. There was emotional abuse, sexual abuse.
Helping Young People Leaving Out-Of-Home Care
Young people leaving out-of-home care in Victoria now have easier access to a comprehensive package of supports to help them make the transition from foster care, kinship care and supported accommodation to more independent lives.
CNN Newsroom: Blog Archive – Life after foster care
CNN’s Tony Harris interviews Randy and Jermaine Jackson, spokespersons for Children Uniting Nations and its founder Daphna Ziman. Children Uniting Nations, a non profit organization, helps teens once they become 18 years old and leave foster care tranistion into the rest of society.
LA seeks to bring children closer to mothers behind bars | 89.3 KPCC
Los Angeles County’s launched a new program to make it easier for kids to visit their incarcerated mothers. It’s intended to help mothers and children as incarceration rates rise.
Teens aging out of foster care have no homes, no jobs – amFIX – CNN.com Blogs
When most teens leave home for the first time they still have their parents to rely on for help. For young adults in foster care, once they’re dropped from the system they often have no one to turn to.
Panel: Foster care’s most troubled kids placed far from home | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Many of the most troubled foster children in Texas, some of them depressed and suicidal, are shipped hundreds of miles from home to residential treatments centers in Houston – where they have no family, no visitors and little hope of leaving state care.