Topic: Foster Care

foster care dog providers http://bit.ly/4RCuYs posted on @Oodle

9 hours ago

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Sue Scheff posted a tweet

RT @ChildCareUSA @FloridaAdoption: Please consider making the holidays a little happier for a child in foster care http://fb.me/4eLrC2I

12 hours ago

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AngelFury posted a tweet

I uploaded a YouTube video -- State Joint Committee on Children's Issues Discusses Foster Care System2... http://bit.ly/7WGLXM

22 hours ago

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Joanne posted a blog entry

A Home For The Holidays: 12/23/09
As the parent of three children that we adopted through foster care, please watch A Home For The Holidays with your family this...

2 days ago

Forever Parents | Topics: Adoption, Adoption..., Older Child..., Parenting an...

swillmsrn posted a blog entry

Brody needs some help! Will you give it?

4 days ago

Life with Satchmo | Topics: dog rescues, dog, Foster care, Rat Terriers

Morbid posted a blog entry

Police Use Tazer On Out Of Control 10-Year-Old Boy
Pueblo, Colorado – Deputies had to Taze a 10-year-old boy after being called to his foster home where he was reportedly...

4 days ago

Dreamin Demon | Topics: Crime, Family, foster care, Foster...

cb posted a blog entry

Calm before the Storm
For some reason, that I wish I could capture in a bottle and keep, I woke up in a particularly good mood yesterday. I made a...

4 days ago

Fighting Monsters | Topics: elderly, fostering, local..., old age

Dashou posted a blog entry

Fleet Enema Gone Terribly Wrong
When i was 16 i had a cancer scare, and being in foster care i was already different enough, so i didn’t want anyone to...

6 days ago

Your Embarrassing Moments | Topics: Story, accident, Advisement, Butt

Mary's World posted a blog entry

Out of the Chaos of DV, is Born a New Family...
Too often Domestic Violence situations go severely wrong, so it is wonderful to hear stories of them going right. Below...

7 days ago

UAADV News Blog | Topics: Adoption, Domestic..., DV, Foster Care

cb posted a blog entry

The Importance of Information
I looked through my ‘draft’ folder this morning and for some reason, found each of my previously written posts (there are...

8 days ago

Fighting Monsters | Topics: fostering, mental health, social care, social issues

Paul Stuckle posted a blog entry

'Family Finder' Program Helps Dad Spring Sons from Foster Care
Three weeks ago, Gabriela Naccarato got a new job. The caseworker, who helps find homes for children in Hillsborough County,...

9 days ago

Glenn Sacks Blog | Topics: Child Protective Services/Child Welfare..., Foster Care

Paul Stuckle posted a blog entry

Part III: What if Poor Parents Got the Money We Now Give to Foster Parents?
Many times before, I've expressed my trepidations about how various issues regarding children have served to enormously expand...

9 days ago

Glenn Sacks Blog | Topics: Family Law, Children's..., Child Protective Services/Child Welfare..., Foster Care

Grown in My Heart posted a blog entry

Remembering Jeremiah
Sunday I opened the newspaper to another heart breaking story. Another story of another child killed either intentionally or...

11 days ago

Grown in my Heart | Topics: Feature, Foster Care, child abuse, family

Grown in My Heart posted a blog entry

The Orphan Next Door
Two steps and a knock from my front door, and I'm in an orphanage. We don't call it an orphanage, but a rose by any other...

12 days ago

Grown in my Heart | Topics: Feature, abandonment, Carrie, China

heartsmakefamilies posted a blog entry

Please God Give Me Patience of a Saint
Please please God give me the patience of a saint! Today is one of my normal days with Jason but the furnace isn't running....

15 days ago

Hearts Make Families | Topics: family, foster care, Funny Things Kids...

heartsmakefamilies posted a blog entry

Gripes about Foster Care NOT helping
Ok my budget just got shot to heck and back. My furnace stopped working last night. We had a service man out. ...

17 days ago

Hearts Make Families | Topics: finances, furnace, foster care

rowan posted a blog entry

Solace of the Road
Solace of the Road by Siobhan DowdHolly was now placed with a family of her own after years in a residential home for...

22 days ago

Kids Lit | Topics: Book Reviews, Teen, foster care, roadtrip

Tasha S posted a blog entry

Solace of the Road
Solace of the Road by Siobhan DowdHolly was now placed with a family of her own after years in a residential home for...

22 days ago

KidsLit | Topics: Book Reviews, Teen, foster care, roadtrip

heartsmakefamilies posted a blog entry

What Makes Me A Theta Mom?
While I was sick Menopausal New Mom was kind enough to tag me as a Theta Mom (The True, Authentic Mom). Menopausal New Mom...

23 days ago

Hearts Make Families | Topics: Adoption, parenting, foster care, Theta Mom Thursday...

Kristinia posted a blog entry

Adopt Us Kids - National Adoption Month
Did you know it would take less than one percent of the U.S. population to provide a forever family for every child in foster...

25 days ago

Loving Heart Mommy | Topics: Adoption, United States, Family, global...

swillmsrn posted a blog entry

Rat Terrier ResQ
To One Dog, You May Just Be the World…Rat Terrier ResQ, Inc. is a national all-volunteer Rat Terrier rescue group committed...

26 days ago

Life with Satchmo | Topics: Adoption, Rescue group, dog, Rat Terrier

Mombian posted a blog entry

LGBT Parenting Roundup
Schools and YouthYes, Iowa has marriage equality. They even have a safe schools law that requires inclusion of sexual...

26 days ago

Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms | Topics: Parenting, Politics and..., Adoption, alabama

Lipsticktocrayons posted a blog entry

What If You Didn’t Have a Family?

27 days ago

Lipstick to Crayons | Topics: Baby and Kids, Family Life, Lifestyle, Mom Stuff

John Johnson posted a blog entry

Is recession any match for the Kingdom of God?
I was reading my Bible a few days ago when this verse arrested my attention….Matthew 12:28But if I cast out demons by the...

27 days ago

PlusLife- Living & Loving the Faith | Topics: Uncategorized, christianity, christian, church

LINDA posted a blog entry

November is National Adoption Month
As someone who became a family through adoption, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. Everyone is different but I am...

29 days ago

New York City Single Mom | Topics: Adoption, Family, adoptuskid..., foster care

Empowering Parents posted a blog entry

Sound off: Should a 6-year-old be Evicted from Her Grandparents’ Home?
Grandparents in Lagos, Florida are fighting to keep their 6 year-old grand daughter Kimberly from being evicted from their...

32 days ago

Empowering Parents | Topics: News, empowering..., fighting to keep..., florida

mezameg posted a tweet

To #adopt from #foster care is like getting a jumbled puzzle with lots of missing pieces and no original box picture for guidance.

32 days ago

Twitter | Topics: missing..., Foster Care, puzzle, Guidance | Add twitter to your profile

Mombian posted a blog entry

Preacher’s Sons Now Available on DVD
The other day, I mentioned the great new documentary Preacher’s Sons, which shows us five years in the lives of two gay...

34 days ago

Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms | Topics: Entertainment, Parenting, Adoption, c roebuck...

rm_blogger posted a blog entry

Jennifer Montag Shagged Her Foster Son
40-Year-Old foster mom Jennifer Ann Montag from Hooper, Utah has been arrested and charged with Forcible Sodomy and Rape (five...

34 days ago

Shadowscope | Topics: Child..., childmoles..., fostercare, jenniferan...

Cushee posted a blog entry

8 to Educate Campaign and the Virlanie Foundation
I’ve written before that a child’s smile can make a world of difference. My sister Joyce will forever have a...

35 days ago

janedchua.com | Topics: Uncategorized, 12 homes, 8 to Educate..., advocacy

Grown in My Heart posted a blog entry

13 Things for which to be Thankful
I am humbled by the experience that so many of you have with adoption, be it from any perspective. My experience is relatively...

36 days ago

Grown in my Heart | Topics: Feature, holidays, adoptee, Adoption

Mombian posted a blog entry

Preacher’s Sons: Two Dads, Five Sons, Four Cities
Preacher’s Sons is a wonderful new documentary that shows us five years in the lives of two gay dads and the five boys...

36 days ago

Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms | Topics: Entertainment, Family..., Parenting, Adoption

Mombian posted a blog entry

Preacher’s Sons: Two Dads, Five Sons, Four Cities
Preacher’s Sons is a wonderful new documentary that shows us five years in the lives of two gay dads and the five boys...

37 days ago

Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms | Topics: Entertainment, Family..., Parenting, Adoption

cb posted a blog entry

A fostering update
I don’t like to patter on about the fostering I do but at the start of a new placement, some of the work-related issues shift...

42 days ago

Fighting Monsters | Topics: fostering, local..., personal, social work

RobWright posted a tweet

looking for some pro-bono design work for http://calvaryhome.org/ SC has 8k kids in foster care. Calvary Home is helping those children

46 days ago

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heatonm8 posted a blog entry

Respite
I might have the opportunity to take a young boy for respite care this weekend or next. Actually, they've asked me to consider...

48 days ago

To China and Back | Topics: foster-care

inlookout posted a blog entry

Gay-inclusive adoption bill introduced in Congress
Last week Rep. Pete Stark of California introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act which denies federal funding to states...

49 days ago

Inside, Looking Out | Topics: lgbt, politics, religion, adoption

Heidi Saxton posted a blog entry

Fostering Futures: A New Concept in Foster Care
“Fostering Futures” is a foster care agency that has recently opened in southern Michigan; I am their newest board...

54 days ago

Extraordinary Moms Network | Topics: Foster Care, Foster-Ado..., Fostering..., Washtenaw...

StarFlower posted a blog entry

Drugging Foster Children
We’ve known for a long time that children are being overly medicated in foster care. State lawmakers seem very resistant...

54 days ago

Fight CPS | Topics: CPS, child abuse, child neglect, doctors

utkurifat posted a tweet

listen to Burial - Fostercare at http://awe.sm/28A0 @hypem

56 days ago

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AnythngArt posted a blog entry

One2One Network Presents...
Once in a Blue MoonEileen GoudgeISBN: 978-1-59315-534-6What happens in to children in their earliest years of life often stays...

62 days ago

Reading and Reviewing | Topics: One in a Blue..., fiction, family, sisters

Paul Stuckle posted a blog entry

This story is indicative of three common events:
From Sioux Falls mom who threatened kids gets probation (Associated Press, 9/9/09):A 23-year-old Sioux Falls woman was...

67 days ago

Glenn Sacks Blog | Topics: Domestic Violence/DV..., Crime/Criminal Justice..., Child Protective Services/Child Welfare..., Foster Care

heatonm8 posted a blog entry

Licensure!!
I'm so excited... I thought I was going to have to get the dogs to the vet today or tomorrow to finish my foster parent...

69 days ago

To China and Back | Topics: foster-care