Packaged For Success™ is a preparation lifestyle – a collection of positive habits and character traits where we are prepared for the great things life has to offer. Our Packaged For Success™ Youth Portfolio Development Program helps foster teens put their best foot forward! During our professional portfolio development seminar, youth discover their strengths, record […]
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Today is National Drop Everything and Read Day (D.E.A.R.) What is D.E.A.R.? D.E.A.R. stands for “Drop Everything and Read,” a national month-long celebration of reading designed to remind folks of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives. Because, what’s more fun(damental) than reading, really? When is D.E.A.R. celebrated? D.E.A.R. programs
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Each Thursday in April our blog posts will focus on the theme “Throw-Back Thursday” and I will share past blog posts with you. Today’s Throw-Back Thursday theme is “foster care in the movies”. My favorites: The Blind Side Gracie’s Choice on Lifetime Raising Izzie on GMC Somebody’s Child on GMC Finding A Family on Hallmark Channel Baby
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Emancipate; Leave; Go Away From; Depart; Withdraw Age Out = to reach an age, 18 or 21 years, for example, at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from the state. Emancipate = to free from restriction or restraint, especially social or legal restraint
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As I continue to celebrate my April 8th birthday, I want to share 8 things about me you probably didn’t know. I am always thinking. My mind goes nonstop even when I’m on vacation. I’ve always known I would author a book. (Stay tuned) Swamp People is my TV viewing guilty pleasure. I want
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Today is my birthday – and it is a BIG one! I’m really excited about it. “BIG” birthdays for over 20,000 teens annually means an exit from the foster care rolls whether they are sufficiently prepared to make it on their own or not. On another note, too many other foster children spend too
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The The Child Welfare League of America reports that there are over 400,000 kids in foster care in the US. Children move on average 7 times while in the foster care system. Very often trash bags are the unofficial luggage of children in foster care. They regularly move from place to place with only the
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Every child deserves a loving supportive family. I believe that the ultimate goal of the foster care system is to keep children and teens in a safe family structure. In honor of family and my birthday on April 8th, I am sharing with you my 8 favorite quotes about family. Family is not
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Challenge – a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc. During the month of April I am taking part in the Ultimate Blog Challenge where the goal is to write 30 blog posts in 30 days. In 2012, I only blogged twice a week. At the start of
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Each Thursday in April our blog posts will focus on the theme “Throw-Back Thursday” and I will share past blog posts with you. Today’s Throw-Back Thursday theme is “youth in transition”. When I speak of youth in transition I am speaking of those young people who are just entering adulthood and exiting the
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