National Foster Care Month: How You Can Make a Difference in the Youth Mental Health Crisis
National Foster Care Month: How You Can Make a Difference in the Youth Mental Health Crisis May is National Foster Care Month. According to the Children’s Bureau, this year’s theme — Strengthening Minds. Uplifting Families. — is all about taking a “holistic and culturally responsive approach to supporting the mental health needs of those involved […]
Debunking Common Myths About Foster Care
Deciding to be a foster parent is a big deal. If you’ve never dealt with the foster care system, you might have tons of questions about how to become a foster parent and what it’s like to welcome a foster youth into your home. But let’s be real, there are a lot of myths and […]
Understanding Kinship Care
Recent data show that 3% of all children in the United States — that’s over 2.5 million kids — are being raised by relatives because their parents aren’t able to care for them.[1] This kind of arrangement is referred to as kinship care. After celebrating Kinship Care Month this September, we wanted to take the […]