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GIVE A CAMPERSHIP. Make it possible for a young person to attend a FosterClub Camp or Conference event. Your donation will help a child meet motivational youth have successfully emerged from foster care, learn how to advocate for themselves, and gain skills that will lead them to educational, employment and personal success. More>

Event Services

Teen Conferences and Workshops have become popular FosterClub offerings. Most of our Event Services are facilitates by the FosterClub All-Stars (link to youth perspective: meet the all-stars), young leaders who have first-hand experience of life in foster care.

FosterClub’s Conferences have opened the way for youth to get involved in their life plan as they approach adulthood. Teen participants receive tools, tips and straight talk to deal with the challenges they face. They form friendships and share success stories with former foster youth recently transitioned out of care.

Each summer, FosterClub and the All-Stars tour the United States, participating in over 25 different events and interfacing with over 3,000 young people.

Our Event packages can include planning, logistical support, outreach and registration, workshop and activity facilitation, and evaluation.

Download FosterClub’s Event Services Brochure. Includes a comprehensive descripiton of our services and pricing information. Download now >

Our workshops are designed specifically for youth in care and cover topics that build their skills in leadership, advocacy, and preparation for transition. Our workshops are co-presented or entirely presented by young people, helping to engage your program’s youth right from the start.

Below is a partial list of FosterClub’s workshop offerings. Download the complete list here.

Built around FosterClub’s new T-Time Toolkit for Young People Preparing to Transition from Care, this workshop covers the essential assets that a youth should put in place prior to leaving foster care. This session encourages teens to sit in the driver’s seat and take the wheel while they are still in foster care, leading a team of supportive adults in the development of a transition plan that will place them on the road to success. Includes the poster 21 Things Before You Leave Care.
Learning Objective: Youth engagement in their case plan, understanding the importance of transition planning and preparation.

This workshop is an overview of FosterClub's tool, the fyi3 Binder, which assists youth in keeping track of important documents, contacts and resources and helps piece things together to make sure youth voice is heard. Concepts presented include youth participation in their case plan, self advocacy, and navigation of the foster care system. Each participant will receive their own copy of the fyi3 Binder.
Learning Objective: encouraging youth participation in their foster care plan, self advocacy skills.

Learn how to get solid with the FosterClub All-Stars. Explore what permanency is all about; learn how to get it if you don’t already have it. The All-Stars present a short skit called “If the shoe fits” which explores the different paths we choose to find permanency in our lives. Using our new publication Getting Solid, each participant will develop the necessary resources to guide him or her towards responsible and reliable relationships that can develop into permanent partnerships with adults.
Learning Objective: understanding permanency and the role it plays for young people, both in care and as they transition to life on their own, identify and develop relationships with supportive adults.

Independence City is a “life on your own” simulation game. The activity is designed to teach young people how to access community resources to help overcome obstacles they will encounter as they transition in to adulthood. Independence City itself is set up in a large room in the layout of a city. Arranged around the perimeter of the room are Resource Stations that represent community organizations and agencies that a youth could access. The resources are presented as a means to solve obstacles that arise in everyday life; they are available to the population and provide information necessary to handle situations. Youth get to “cash in” their “earnings” for real prizes.
Learning Objective: to successfully overcome obstacles by utilizing community resources; critical thinking and decision making skills, money and time management; understanding the effect of one’s choices on outcomes.

Join the FosterClub All-Stars as they share their wisdom they’ve gained in their transitioning process. Topics for discussion may include Permanency, Adoption, Transition Planning, Recruiting Teen Foster Homes, Transitional Housing, Activating Youth Advisory Councils, Education, Health, Court and Self-Advocacy, Disabilities, Community Involvement.
Learning Objective: Prepare youth for the transition to adulthood; self advocacy; transition planning.

Download FosterClub’s Workshop List. See the selection of current workshops we offer, tailored to events for youth, staff and supportive adults. Download now >

FosterClub Child Welfare Training
	For more information about FosterClub’s Trainings geared for foster parents, child welfare staff and administrators, and other supportive adults, please visit our Training Section. Learn more >

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