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University of Alabama - Find Your Passion, By Deirdra Drinkard, Tuscaloosa, AL -- University of Alabama student Sean Hudson could have been a statistic - instead he's a success story...

Tonight a strange thing happened. I felt a feeling I haven't felt in a long, long time. Let me explain!!! You see when I think about my past I try...

From Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: “Foster Care: A Reality Check,” premieres Sunday, October 24th, at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time. “We don’t have parents that were able to...

Entering foster care

Sitting a table of people consisting of key players in child welfare can be intimidating. This was my first thought when I joined the Missouri roundtable strategy discussions concerned with...

I was going to come on here and write about my new job and how life after the All-Star training and summer has been but after getting a call from...

Well-being

I’m not sure what I was thinking trying to go to bed early tonight because it is not working out for me. So many thoughts running through my head that...

So as I sit in my little brothers house and listen to music I think, think, and think some more. And lately all I think of is what's next? I...

I cannot believe I have officially been home for an entire month and how quickly it has gone by! It hasn’t been the easiest transition but I am finally starting...

Over the course of 4 meetings in Washington DC this summer, Over a dozen FosterClub All- Stars had the opportunity the meeting senior Congressional staffers in order to provide their...

Sibling separation

Imagine cracked pavement, small broken down houses and chain linked fences. Then imagine a middle schooler walking alone to the school up the road on his first day. instead of...

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