Mar 15, 2012
I was very pleased to find the winter 2012 newsletter of the Children, Youth, and Families Office of the American Psychological Association with several articles about the mental health needs of children and youth who have experienced foster care. I was privileged to...
Mar 8, 2012
One of the most important things a caregiver of children and youth in foster care can do is to help them heal from trauma. If you can give the children in your home nurturance, structure, predictability, they have a chance of building good things inside themselves....
Mar 8, 2012
According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education’s October 2011 report, “Success in school can be a positive counterweight to the abuse, neglect, separation and impermanence experienced by children and youth in foster care. Education...
