We help Indiana’s 22,000 transitional age foster youth make successful transitions to adulthood through education, financial support, and advocacy.
Foster Success Releases Report Recommending Key Changes to Help Kids Succeed in School
September 23, 2019
Foster Success is making key recommendations to help Indiana’s students in foster care better succeed. The recommendations are contained in a policy brief called “Supporting the Potential of Indiana Foster Youth.”
Continue reading →The 74: After Saying It Would Go Above and Beyond to Educate Its Foster Care Students, Indiana Unveils a Plan That Is Little More Than Bullet Points
August 22, 2019
“This is not the intentional or robust plan that we had hoped for,” said Brent Kent, a member of a stakeholder group that worked on the plan and helped usher in the state law that mandated it.
Continue reading →Initiatives and goals we're working toward right now
Foster Success helps pass legislation extending foster care
Indiana was the first state to release school-level data on foster and homeless youth.
SPOTLIGHT: Read the latest insights on the growing population of foster students.
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See how we empower foster youth to be thriving adults
Financial Empowerment
Foster youth learn how to save money, spend wisely, and receive 1:1 savings matches to help them buy vehicles, apartments and more.
College & Career
Hoosier foster youth graduate at rates nearly half that of their peers. Here's what we're doing to change that.
Advocacy
Foster Success is a thought leader in child welfare reform. See how policies we’ve enacted are changing foster care for the better.
Engagement
Over 100 foster youth from around the state make up the Indiana Youth Advisory Board. Each year IYAB advocates for Indiana youth and leads improvements to the foster care system.