July 27, 2023
Originally published 2019 and updated for payment rate structure July 2023. Understanding the SC Foster Care Stipend Money is always a touchy subject. Nobody wants to […]
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May 26, 2023
The countdown to summer is on for school-aged children everywhere. There is something exciting about having time away from the classroom for rest and relaxation. The […]
May 16, 2023
Foster care is not immune to sibling rivalry. In foster care, there are times when siblings hold baggage from their life back home, which impacts their […]
May 12, 2023
Do you remember the first time you spent the night away from home? For many of us, our first experience away from home was with grandparents […]
May 12, 2023
My Confession: I am a foster parent, and my foster son does not see his siblings. This is the hard truth of our present reality. My […]
May 12, 2023
“It sounds preposterous, but it has been a blessing to me.” That is how foster mom, Tasha, describes her journey as a foster and adoptive mom. […]
May 12, 2023
One of the hard parts of foster care is that sometimes sibling care and sibling connection does not result in siblings living together. When Sophia came […]
May 12, 2023
There are a few things from the training to become a foster parent that I still remember almost seven years later. The importance of the sibling […]
April 24, 2023
Malachi had no relationship with his family and faced aging out of foster care. When Daniel* first became a mentor to a youth in foster care, […]
April 22, 2023
Every relationship has its beginning somewhere. Michael and Raymond discovered something special in their tutoring relationship, something that deserved more attention than reading, writing, and arithmetic. […]
April 20, 2023
For youth experiencing foster care, prom is a night to be normal. Ask any teenage girl looking forward to prom the reasons for her excitement, and […]
April 18, 2023
What makes the biggest difference for youth in foster care? What helps them to succeed? Such important questions – ones that are relevant to over 1,270 […]