Speak The Dream Foundation

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The Foster Care to Prison Pipeline Impacts America's Most Vulnerable Youth Kids are being funneled from foster care into the criminal justice system.

The Foster Care System in the United States, Explained At least 437,500 children are in the system, and they deserve our attention.

Nadine Lee is a Special Guest this Sunday Night on "What's Happening In Daily News with Ernest L. Thomas!"

Tune-in live on Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 8 PM (PST)/10PM (CST)/11PM (EST) when Nadine joins TV Icon Ernest L. Thomas ("What's Happening" & "Everybody Hates Chris") as a special guest on his weekly radio show "What's Happening In Daily News with Ernest Thomas!"

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'We can't abandon these children' Louisiana bill to extend foster care age get surprise approval "I can't believe we got it out," said author Sen. Ryan Gatti, R-Bossier City

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She Is Harlem’s ‘Rising Star.’ But First, She Has to Finish High School. | The New York Times Student Journalism Institute Victoria Pannell, 17, wants to run for president one day. She already has a track record of activism in Harlem, and she doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

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Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’ For women in New York’s poorer neighborhoods, the threat that a child will be removed to foster care for little cause is a grim reality.

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Happy Father's Day for being a loving and vital presence to a child!

Thanks to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for spotlighting foster care alum and advocate Nyeelah and our campaign. A great read!

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Foster family numbers dwindling in Connecticut, but the care is all about love NEW HAVEN >> Thinking about the morning of Feb. 10 still brings tears to Junie Johnson’s eyes.

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After living in an abusive foster home for about five years, Brittany “spent the rest of my seven years in state care constantly being moved from home to home. …I lived with foster parents who were newly licensed or ones who had never had foster children, much less a teenager who had been emotionally, physically and sexually abused.”

Now an undergrad at the University of Alabama, she adds, “Had I not kept in contact with those few good apples, I could have become a victim of the system.” This is Brittany’s : http://fosteringthefuture.com/

Homeless Teen Receives Surprise Of A Lifetime After Graduation High School (Video) Liyjon DeSilva was abandoned by his family and homeless. But he never missed a day of school. “What else am I supposed to do? It was either be that or a low life, I could have thrown everything away,” he explained, “I have a chance, why not just keep going?” That was the best decision of his life.

Bullying is not okay, no matter the age. Wounds heal, but the memories last forever.

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On day 16 of Fostering the Future we hear from James, who, with a lot of hard work and support, overcame a childhood marked by horrific abuse and instability. Today, he is graduating from the University of Southern California with his Masters in Social Work.

“I want foster youth to know that they can prevail, despite the odds,” he writes. You can read his remarkable story of resilience on www.fosteringthefuture.com. Like and share this post to congratulate James on his graduation!

Affecting Change: A New Non-Profit Provides a Way for Black Male Youth to Travel Abroad Statistics show that only 1 percent to 2 percent of the participants in study abroad programs are African-American males. Is it because this particular g...

“I was put in a group home in a different county, and I had to start a new school. My caseworker told me that education was not her priority at the time … For six months I was at this group home, then another group home for about nine months. And it did affect my education–my teachers could tell you I was a great student, [but] the instability in my life meant poor grades and poor attendance on my transcript.”

Read Edgar's story and learn how his education was adversely affected by being placed in multiple homes: https://goo.gl/pTuJIe

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There's no sugar coating it: 217 legislators turned their backs on our neediest children and families today. Children's Rights is ready to fight for children so that they receive the healthcare they need, regardless of their family's ability to pay.

Dozens Of CPS Caseworkers Caught Lying, Falsifying Documents Dozens Of CPS Caseworkers Caught Lying, Falsifying Documents When Child Protective Services received a complaint that a Harris County father had choked his teenage daughter, caseworker Michelle Rob…

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