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(pictured: Dashun Jackson, 2013 FosterClub All-Star) Lucette Lagnado from the Wall Street Journal wrote an investigative journalism piece on the abuse of psychotropic medication prescriptions for youth in foster care...

Psychotropic medications

I met my adoptive parents when i was 10, events up to that point i was in multiple foster homes. I wasn't the best acting child in the world. My...

Adoption

May 15 is a big day and we need your support. Starting at 2pm (EST), 11 am here at FosterClub headquarters on the West Coast, use your Twitter account to...

After venturing out on my own following my All-Star year in 2010, I took everything that I had learned and applied it to my situation in Foster Care. Mostly my...

Have you ever had an "aha" moment? It seems that mine have been happening more frequently. Many people go through life and are told that you should do this, don't...

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Council members of the National Foster Care Youth and Alumni Policy Council met on October 9, 2012, with the George Sheldon, Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families...

Sex trafficking
Transition (aging out)

Last summer, as an All-Star, I was much better about blogging. Conversely, this summer at the National Resource Center for Youth Development has been full of a myriad of different...

Often, foster care is mentioned in the news and in books as a problem. Foster care needs to be solved, abolished, or abandoned for the betterment of youth engaged in...

A little about me before I begin: I was placed into foster care as an infant, adopted at the age of 5 by the best parents ever, have traveled the...

Hey Everyone! Greetings from Seaside! We've been in Seaside for about a month now. We've been training and doing all of these crazy events. So far, we've worked with NRCYD...

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