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Feb. 3, 2020Love Makes a Family: Support Foster Families
Love Makes a Family: Support Foster Families Valentine’s Day is typically seen as a romantic holiday. A day full of chocolates, roses, and time spent with that special someone. While Foster Love - Together We Rise focuses on helping foster youth, we believe in the transversal properties of helping foster parents. This Valentine’s Day, we are showing our…
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Jan. 31, 2020Provide Kentucky Kids in Foster Care a Stable Education
Provide Kentucky Kids in Foster Care a Stable Education New legislation to help provide Kentucky kids in foster care with stable educations. Like in many states, Kentucky kids in foster care struggle with their education. There are several reasons including varying placements, resulting in new homes and schools. How to Provide Kentucky Kids in Foster…
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Jan. 30, 2020Growing Up in Foster Care: Ana’s Story
Growing Up in Foster Care: Ana’s Story Growing up in foster care is a reality for thousands of youths in America. Today we were fortunate to chat with former foster youth and advocate Ana Felix about her experience. Ana spent 12 years in care in 13 different placements. As an adult, Ana makes advocacy a…
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Jan. 23, 2020Foster to Adopt Texas: Lisa’s Story
Foster to Adopt Texas: Lisa’s Story Foster to adopt in Texas may be a different process from other states but the pull of love is always the same. Making the decision to foster children isn’t an easy one, especially for a single teacher. Lisa made the life-changing decision to become a foster parent back in…
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Jan. 22, 2020Team Building Games with Great Clips
Team Building Games with Great Clips This week the Foster Love - Together We Rise team met up with Great Clips for fun team building games. As we continue our mission to help kids in foster care we’ve improved our team building service projects. The Great Clips team opted to partake in our classic Sweet Case duffle bag…
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Jan. 22, 2020Oregon’s Foster Care in Overhaul
Foster Care Overhaul in Oregon Consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal granted 3.5 million to overhaul Oregon’s foster care system. Thanks to Governor Kate Brown, a movement began in April 2019 to take action against the problems stemming from the Department of Human Services and the agencies that manage the state’s foster care system. Areas of…
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Jan. 18, 2020STEM Saturday Launch
STEM Saturday Launch There are some BIG things in the works. One of them being our new STEM initiatives. You may be wondering. What in the world is STEM? Well STEM is an anacronym for Science-Technology-Engineering-Math. Because children in care often struggle with school and lack of extracurricular activities we’ve started working on solutions. The…
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Jan. 16, 2020Adopt from Foster Care: Amy’s Story
Adopt from Foster Care: Amy’s Story This week we hear from Amy about how to adopt from foster care. She shares her path to motherhood through her adoption story: As a 27-year-old single woman, adoption was Amy’s first choice. Her whole adult life consisted of getting herself ready for adopting one day. When 2013 came…
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Jan. 13, 2020Tennessee Expanding Paid Family Leave
Tennessee Expanding Paid Family Leave Tennessee is expanding paid family leave. Sitting Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced a plan on Tuesday, January 7th to offer up to 12 weeks of paid annual family leave for state workers. This would be applicable for state workers who are experiencing varying events like parental leave, for birth, adoption,…
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Jan. 12, 20207 Things You Should Not Say To Aged Out Foster Youth
7 Things You Should Not Say To Aged Out Foster Youth Growing up in foster care is not always easy. Imagine aging out and not having a familiar support system? Who do you call when you get sick? Who helps you open a bank account? How do you get an apartment? In this day and…
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Jan. 8, 2020Foster to Adopt: Shantelle’s Story
Foster to Adopt: Shantelle’s Story Foster to adopt, these stories vary greatly. Currently, there are 433,495 kids in foster care and 1,200 enter the system every single day. With this massive amount of children without parents, there is a need for families to open up their homes to foster or adopt. This is something that…
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Jan. 7, 2020Foster Kids for Adoption: The Huttons
Foster Kids for Adoption: The Huttons There are thousands of foster kids for adoption. Adopting a child of your own comes with a unique set of challenges. The process can consist of plenty of excitement, but also sadness. Overall, the joy that it gives to both the parents and child helps to overcome all obstacles.…
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Dec. 29, 2019The 2019 Year End Wrap Up
The 2019 Year End Wrap Up Can you believe it?!?!? 2019 is over and we helped so many kids in foster care together! It is amazing to reflect on all of the wonderful people we’ve worked with and the projects we have accomplished. Since this is the 2019 end of the year wrap up, we…
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Dec. 23, 2019Simple Team Building Activities with ZipRecruiter
Simple Team Building Activities with ZipRecruiter We love simple team building activities! Especially ones that allow us to hang out with our friends at ZipRecruiter. As Foster Love - Together We Rise continues to grow, one area we always excel in is hosting fun and simple team builds. This week we were able to spend some time out…
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