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This week, the National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council engaged with newly confirmed Administration of Children, Youth & Families Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston and Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner...
With recent blog posts from #FosterEquality focusing on the discrimination that LGBTQIA2S+ youth in foster care experience, you may find yourself asking, "How can my agency help improve the experience...
"Name calling was happening in the group home but nothing was done about it." -- LGBTQ2S+ alumni of care There are no federal policies protecting youth in care from discrimination...
“Just help the foster youth to understand that they deserve to be treated appropriately and that people are there to listen.” – former foster youth January is National Human Trafficking...
"Validate us and accept us for who we are" -- former foster youth Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ2S+ experience unique challenges that their heterosexual and/or cisgender peers don’t. Caring...
LGBTQ2S+ youth are overrepresented in the foster care system and twice as likely to report poor treatment while in care. Almost 30% of foster youth identify as LGBTQ2S+, compared to...
One of the many ways we can celebrate the life and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is to have the courage to create change that will bring us...
The National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council is pleased to release its 19th priority statement: Supporting Immigrant Children & Youth in Foster Care. Recent years have seen an...
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a case ( Haaland v. Brackeen) that will impact Native youth and families across the United States...
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. For the second year in a row, it is recognized as a federal holiday in the United States. What you may not know is why...