Sometimes you have to toot your own horn! YOU can nominate yourself for SPOTLIGHT Teen of the Month. Our SPOTLIGHT Teen of the Month award recognizes a youth (14-21) in the foster care system that is leading a life of promise and making a positive impact in his or her community. Here are 5 […]
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Check out these great stories of youth helping youth in foster care. Because of his experience in the system, Tim Dennis is on a mission to recruit adults who will support teens in the foster care system by becoming either foster parents or mentors. Dennis is now a Maryville College freshman who dreams of
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I call the 18th birthday the day you become a legal adult. You still have one more “teen year” but you can vote and sign your own medical consent forms. When your 20th birthday arrives you are no longer a teenager but unable to legally purchase alcohol and still carded for cigarettes in most states.
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I would be rich if I had a quarter for every time I heard someone describe Generation Y in a negative manner. Young people have been tainted as selfish, entitled, lazy, and show offs. It’s been said that the millennial generation is unable to spell and write well, concentrate for an extended period of time,
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve heard the buzz about the ABC Family show television “The Fosters”. It is currently the second highest show on ABC Family and has been renewed for another season. I was not impressed with the first couple of episodes. I was left wondering if the show was
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In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31 were living in their parents’ home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Past trauma and nonexistent, limited or strained support systems place foster youth at higher risk of unemployment, poor educational outcomes, health issues, early parenthood,
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Welcome back to day 29 in our Get Hired job search blog series. How many tips have you implemented this month? Question of the Day: Do you remember your last high school science fair project and research paper? I am a huge proponent of education and because I understand that education can open doors
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Welcome back to day 21 in our Get Hired job search blog series. Question of the Day: How many of the previous 20 blogs in the series have you read? SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Get Hired blog series will become an ebook! Get Hired Toolbox: 30 Ways To Land The Job Of Your Dreams
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The Teen Toolbox sponsors two annual drives/events to raise awareness about the issues faced by youth aging out of foster care and to show teens that someone cares: PACK A PURSE DRIVE™– collects and distributes purses filled with personal hygiene items to teen girls in foster homes, groups homes and homeless shelters each December
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We more than doubled our National Foster Care Awareness Month Second Annual Pack A Backpack Drive goal and collected 210 backpacks (duffel bags and knapsacks) filled with personal hygiene items to teen males in foster homes, group homes, and homeless shelters during the months of May and June 2013. (Our goal was 80.) The backpacks
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