Jordan O., a young person with foster care experience, is working to change the lives of teens and young adults with foster care experience. Jordan first entered the foster care system at the age of seventeen. One of his first experiences with leadership and Foster...
Policy & Practice
Learn, Listen, Achieve: CDCO Chosen for Prestigious Program
Each year, just 23 fundraisers are selected to join a prestigious group of community leaders. This year, Foster Success’s own Travis Tester, CFRE, was among those chosen for the program. The Mutz Philanthropic Leadership Institute, organized by the Indiana...
More Must be Done to Increase Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is a national and statewide challenge that many are working to address, including Foster Success, Prosperity Indiana, the Hoosier Housing Needs Coalition and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). April is National Fair Housing Month,...
Dynamic Duo: CEO, COO Participate in Prestigious Programs
We regularly encourage the teens and young adults we support to step outside of their comfort zones. It’s how they grow. At Foster Success, we practice what we preach. Both our President and CEO Maggie Stevens and Chief Operating Officer Monika Mala are participating...
General Assembly Should Improve Foster Youth Support
It is shaping up to be a busy legislative session at the Statehouse, and I am eager to work with lawmakers to support the teens and young adults transitioning out of foster care in Indiana. At Foster Success, we ensure that the 24,000 teens and young adults...
Giving Young People in Foster Care a Seat at the Table
For 16 years, Morgan Perrill has advocated for changes at the state level. For the past two years, much of her work has been on behalf of youth in foster care. “I love seeing young people learn about government and get involved in its process,” said Perrill, Vice...
Foster Youth to Benefit from Indiana General Assembly Session
This year’s Indiana General Assembly session included passage of a number of provisions that will help Indiana’s foster children.
The Voices and Advocacy of Older Youth in Foster Care Were Critical to the COVID Relief Bill
A lot of voices informed the most recent COVID relief bill, but most notable to those of us at Foster Success were the voices of older foster youth and former foster care youth from across the country informing the Supporting Foster Youth & Families through...
An open letter to House Ways and Means members on H.R. 7947
Foster Success is one of 45 organizations who signed the following letter on Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act. A copy of the letter is available here.
Education outcomes for foster youth are going in the wrong direction
…the more complete data set only emphasized and further heightened the continued disparities in the educational foundation that we are laying for Indiana’s students in foster care.