By Janet C. Mann and Dr. Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-84905-660-1, 252 pages, $19.95 Janet and Paul Mann had been foster parents for six years before co-founding The Children’s Ark in Spokane, […]
Written and directed by Mark Vadik, based on the book by Steve Pemberton. http://www.achanceintheworldmovie.com 75 minutes When Steve Pemberton was a kid, he bore the Polish last name of Klakowicz and knew nothing about his […]
By William Holmes, MD May is National Foster Care Month, and there is no better time to recognize and give a heartfelt word of encouragement to all foster parents, who are a necessary and vital […]
This year, Fostering Media Connections (FMC) launched its first-ever Youth Voice nonfiction writing contest and invited current and former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 24 to submit essays. This year’s theme: “What love is.” Dozens of […]
By Josh Shipp HarperCollins Publishers, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-06-265406-9, $26.99 Raising teenagers is challenging even in the rosiest of circumstances; the struggle amplifies enormously when those teens are living in the child welfare system and come […]
By Sequoya Griffin Key Purpose Books, LLC, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-9992325-0-7, 443 pages, $14.99 When Sequoya Griffin was 4 she entered foster care for the first time. This would be a pattern that would continue for […]
By Michael Fitzgerald Niquana Clark of Harlem never imagined she’d become a famous actress. By the end of high school, she hadn’t performed in front of a large audience, was living in foster care, and […]
By Kim Phagan-Hansel When Ohio mom China Darrington lost custody of her child 14 years ago it turned her life upside down. Little did she know that experience would one day lead her to mentoring […]
by Eshele Williams, Psy.D., LMFT, A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Writer, Researcher, Dr. Eshele Williams has the lived experience of being a birth child of a foster, adoptive and kinship parents. This story, her […]
Web Series Nicole Opper Productions, 2017 http://www.thefwordseries.com/watch/ Oakland couple Nicole and Kristen have decided they want to adopt a child from foster care. At the start of that process, Nicole decided to create a six-part […]
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