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5 Ways to Know You’re Ready to Be a Foster Parent

Follow this link to read a short but important article that does a beautiful job of articulating 5 basic realities of foster parenting.  Written by Solvej Schou, who writes regularly for TakePart,and has also contributed to the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times,...

How to Submit Testimony

When a bill is scheduled to be heard, it is very important to let our legislators know why raising the amount for the care of foster children and youth is so important and to show that there is a lot of community support for this!  Please submit testimony ~...

2013 Tax Information for Foster Care

Unique tax rules affect resource, foster, kinship care, and adoptive families.  The best information regarding these tax rules that we have seen so far this year come from  NYS Citizens’ Coalition for Children’s website.  Click here to see that information We...

Choose Respect

Yesterday, two Democratic legislators and a former child protection worker called on Governor Parnell to enact recommendations in a child protection report his administration commissioned to identify ways to improve the Office of Children’s Services (OCS)....