Many of the youth waiting for a mentor rarely have visitors or leave campus. They long for a friend who is theirs and theirs alone. As Coleen soon learned, becoming a mentor is a very real opportunity to not only change the life of a child, but to have yours changed as well.
Lauren Collins oversees our 22-unit Pathways transitional living apartment building for youth aged 16-22 in Wichita, Kan. Learn more about her history, experience and what drives her passion.
We asked Jessica Allen, one of our therapists in St. Louis, about what led her to the field, the work that she does and what she wished the community understood about the children and families we work with every day. This is what she said.
Teachers at Turner Middle School use the Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST) model to help students overcome emotional and behavioral difficulties through grace, responsibility and accountability. Here's one of their experiences.
#Glowup has taken over social media. People are telling the stories of how they overcame childhood adversity (or just bad school photos) and blossomed into the people they are today. Here are some inspiring #glowup stories of people you may not have known were in foster care.
