12.13.2010 | Another great foster-youth success story, this time at Colorado State University.
“CSU’s new effort — the Fostering Success Program — looks to change that trend, at least for the 80 or so students on campus who have aged out of the foster-care system, said Siri Newman, collegiate-success coordinator for the Center fo…r Advising and Student Achievement at the university.”
(http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16843335)
11.25.2010 | Another great foster-youth success story, this one is still in the making
(http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16706725?source=most_emailed&nclick_check=1)
9.20.2010 | Great story about NY Giants player who’s giving back to the foster-care community.
9.10.2010 | Another great story of former foster-youth making their way through college.
“He got up every day, went to school, became an all-conference football player, worked 30 hours a week. It was “against all odds,” King said, that he graduated from high school and enrolled in college.”
(http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x1358125566/Teens-move-from-foster-care-to-higher-learning)
3.12.2010 | Great story about kids in foster-care who would love to get adopted:
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/12/eveningnews/main6293660.shtml)
2.23.2010 | “One in four will end up incarcerated within two years of getting out of the foster care system…and one in five will end up homeless within that same two year period.”
(http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-aging-out-of-foster-care022310,0,1123411.story)
2.22.2010 | “I want to scream to the world, hey we do exist,” – great story about a foster-youth trying to help Californian foster-youth have a better chance in the world once they turn 18.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/protecting-foster-care-ch_b_469270.html)
1.30.2010 | “I’m a real boy now. I’m not a boy in foster care anymore.” Great story about connecting foster-youth with family members they never knew about.
1.4.2010 | Another great story of a former foster-youth making their way successfully through college
“Ashley Williams moved 26 times and attended 23 different schools by the time she finished eighth grade. It was not the ideal adolescence growing up in foster care, but Williams bucked the odds for someone like her to make it to college and also prosper as a UCLA sophomore with a 3.3 grade point average.”
1.4.2010 | Great story about a former foster-youth (his name may be familiar…) who leveraged the resources of his local community foundation to help him pay for both his undergraduate degree and law school degrees
12.21.2009 | Great story about a former foster-youth making her way through college
(http://www.nj.com/helpinghands/carlyrothman/index.ssf/2009/12/through_holiday_fund_family_se.html)
3.27.2009 | Teen Fights to Find His Own Foster Family
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/assignment_america/main4898640.shtml)
