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Sept. 25, 2020ALERT! Survey Finds Young Adults Aging Out of Foster Care Impacted the Worst
ALERT! Survey Finds Young Adults Aging Out of Foster Care Impacted the Worst New research from the Field Center For Policy, Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania finds young adults aging out of foster care impacted the worst during the pandemic. These findings come to no surprise to the Foster Love - Together We Rise team.…
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Sept. 18, 2020Adopting Siblings from Foster Care
Adopting siblings from foster care is a great way to grow your family. For Pam Willis and her husband, the choice to adopt siblings happened because of a social media post. Raising Children Part 2 Like many families, Pam and her husband decided to start fostering when their biological children became teens. They were looking…
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Sept. 16, 2020Team Building is Back!
Team Building is Back! Team building has taken a strange turn during COVID. While zoom team building has been a thing (Foster Love - Together We Rise has done several zoom events) it is nice to get back to basics. This week our friends at Mariner Wealth Advisors hosted a COVID safe team building for good event. They were…
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Sept. 15, 2020Foster Youth Benefit from Basic Income Pilot Program
Foster Youth Benefit from Basic Income Pilot Program Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approves a new basic income pilot program to benefit foster youth. The project was initially approved in May with the hopes of helping foster youth within Santa Clara County. This is the first basic income program of its kind in the…
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Sept. 14, 2020URGENT! Foster Youth Need Help in School
URGENT! Foster Youth Need Help in School We are sounding the alarm! Foster youth need your help to succeed in school. Even before COVID, children in care have had difficulties reaching academic milestones. You may be wondering why that is. How could children who are being managed in care struggle so greatly? Well, let us…
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Sept. 11, 2020Oklahoma Launches New Website to Help Foster Care
Oklahoma Launches New Website to Help Foster Care The pandemic has impacted our nation in countless ways with those in foster care finding new struggles. It has become increasingly harder to navigate foster care. Children in Oklahoma are having an increasingly difficult time finding foster families. To help remedy this, the Department of Human Services…
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Sept. 10, 202010 Tips to Help Your Child with Distance Learning
10 Tips to Help Your Child with Distance Learning So many parents are redefining their stress levels with distance learning. Teaching is a difficult job on top of what most parents are already doing to support their families. So how do you help your child with distance learning? Here are our top 10 tips to…
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Sept. 4, 2020Kids Up for Adoption Through Foster Care
Kids Up for Adoption Through Foster Care Did you know there are over 125K kids up for adoption through foster care? Not only are these children in need of loving homes, in most states adoption through foster care is free! Today we chat with Stephanie Acker about the best kid in the entire world, her…
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Sept. 3, 2020Single Parent Adoption is Possible Through Foster Care
Single Parent Adoption is Possible Through Foster Care Single parent adoption is possible through foster care! Many single individuals are looking to start their families but may not know that adoption is an option for them. Today Foster Love - Together We Rise speaks with Ramos about his single parent adoption journey. Starting as a Foster Parent In…
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Sept. 1, 20207 Self-Care Tips for Parents
7 Self-Care Tips for Parents The pandemic is still lurking, school is very different, work is very different. All of the ways you used to refresh are limited. So how do you practice self-care as a parent? Here are our top 7 self-care tips for parents and all people a like. 1. Create Boundaries The…
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Sept. 1, 2020First Foster Home Community Opens in Texas
First Foster Home Community Opens in Texas The first foster home community opens in Grayson County Texas this summer. There is a huge push for foster care reform and one rising trend is foster villages and foster communities. Susie Holamon, the founder of the Geary Foster Foundation, created the first eight-home foster community outside of…
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Aug. 28, 2020Help Pandemic Victims in the Foster Care Community
Help Pandemic Victims in the Foster Care Community How can you help pandemic victims in the foster care community? This is a question that many people have asked and believe us when we say, there is some work to do. We are happy to report that so many states and organizations are working on offering…
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Aug. 28, 2020International Adoption: Loving Terminally Ill Children
International adoptions have been one way many have grown their families. However, it is very rare for someone to leave their life in America to support, foster, and adoption terminally ill children. Time is finite and our friend Addisyn Lopez shares with us her first-hand experience in partaking in the international adoption process to ensure…
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Aug. 26, 2020Free Adoption Changes Lives
Free Adoption Changes Lives Free adoption is the way we can change lives. If you weren’t aware, adoptions through foster care are free in almost all 50 states. This week we chat with Paige Sullivan Connell about her family’s free foster care adoption and how their lives have changed for the better. A Slow Start…
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Aug. 26, 2020Creative Team Building for Children During COVID
Creative Team Building for Children During COVID Creative team building ideas can be hard to land on in the best of times. Now that more people are getting back to “normal” how can you host a safe team building even for children? Well, lucky for you Foster Love - Together We Rise and our supporters are getting back…
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Aug. 24, 20205 Things to Remember About Reunification
5 Things to Remember About Reunification Reunification is the main goal of foster care. Currently, 51% of children in care are reunified with their birth parents or primary caregiver. So as a foster parent how do you cope with this? You have shared a home and love with a child that must leave. So many are…
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Aug. 20, 2020Brooklyn Baby Loses Foster Mom to COVID
Brooklyn Baby Loses Foster Mom to COVID COVID continues to devastate families across the nation and the world. But what happens when a baby in care loses her foster mom to the virus. While this story is very heartbreaking, it does speak to family and love. Sharon Henry, 59-years-old, was hospitalized with COVID-19 in April.…
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Aug. 19, 2020Being a Foster Mom and Changing Lives
Being a Foster Mom and Changing Lives Part of being a foster mom is understanding the impression you leave on children. Today we chat with Cathleen Bearse about her family and their choice to foster and grow their family through care. One Child’s Story Cathleen Bearse and her family had been open to the idea…
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Aug. 18, 2020Top 5 COVID Safe Outdoor Activities For The Family
Top 5 COVID Safe Outdoor Activities For The Family Everyone is feeling the heat and restlessness of the summer. As we continue to adjust to COVID and keep our families safe, we still want something fun to do. Here are our top 5 COVID safe outdoor activities to enjoy with your family. 1. Nature Hikes…
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Aug. 18, 20205 COVID Safe Date Night Ideas
5 COVID Safe Date Night Ideas Even before COVID, it can be hard to find time for romance as a parent. Just because we are living through a pandemic doesn’t mean we can’t reconnect with our partners. Here are our top 5 COVID safe date night ideas. 1. Backyard Movie Night A fun and COVID…
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Aug. 18, 20207 Parenting Lessons Learned During COVID
Parenting Lessons Learned During COVID As we enter the 5th month of the pandemic we started reflecting on what we have learned. Really, think about it. Our entire lives have shifted and we keep adapting. It speaks to our resiliency as humans. Here are our staff’s top 7 parenting lessons learned during COVID. 1. Always…
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Aug. 18, 2020Tiffany Haddish Advocates for Foster Care Youth
Tiffany Haddish Advocates for Foster Care Youth Popular comedian and former foster youth, Tiffany Haddish, is nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award for her special Black Mitzah. While this is a huge honor, she already considers herself a winner. Tiffany Haddish advocates for foster care youth and during quarantine spends time on Zoom calls with…
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