Foster Care

It sucks to have a family that goes through turmoil. I know the feeling all too well. My parents would have screaming matches at each other constantly, and I would often find myself hide under the bed just to escape the noise. But the question is: what can you do…

Introduction It’s weird having parents who don’t love you. It sucks, actually. I spent most of my childhood moving around from one foster home to the next. It’s hard to learn how to love someone when they’re only going to be around for a while and you have to start all…

Monique Miller is a pre-law child youth, and family studies and communication studies double major with minors in ethnic studies, English and philosophy from Omaha, Nebraska. Through work on and off campus, Monique is striving to provide a voice for children. What originally drew you to your major? I have always been passionate about helping children, but…

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Every day 100 children are taken into care and by 2026 we will have a deficit of 25,000 carers. — Not enough of us know how the system works — or how great the need is. We need to enable more of us to experience the reward of serving our most vulnerable children. Now Foster To that end we are, this week, launching a not-for-profit — Now Foster — to introduce more people to the world of fostering. Over the past few years, we have assembled a small, talented team of social workers, social entrepreneurs and public sector design specialists united by the same vision.

by Laurie Kilby I assume when you think about fostering, you might think about teenagers damaging your house, kids getting in trouble at school, or bringing drugs into your home. …