May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. In Tennessee, approximately 8,000 children are in foster care at any given time. With fewer than 4,000 foster families, the need is ever-present; even during COVID-19. National statistics show that a new child is placed into care every two minutes.
Even during this pandemic, the push for foster families continues. “We are still pushing to get as many families as we can to become foster families.
Tae’s freshman year in college didn’t go as planned. He was in the middle of the second semester at Johnson & Wales University, studying culinary science, when the COVID-19 crisis began.
Taylor and Tony Barnes are two Youth Villages employees from Cookeville, Tennessee, who married in August. Taylor is a family intervention specialist, and Tony is a LifeSet specialist. They looked forward to starting their lives together, until they lost everything as devastating tornadoes ripped through Middle Tennessee.
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New partnering agencies and private providers launched the LifeSet™ program in Connecticut and Illinois in the first months of 2020.
Young people who have experienced foster care have so much potential, but without support in their teens and early 20s, they may struggle to transition into adulthood…
Youth transitioning out of foster care often face unique challenges compared to their peers; they have needs that aren’t always identified or addressed…
Markese’s first car is a real fixer upper. As he and his LifeSet specialist look over the 1990s-era Crown Victoria