by Foster Success | Apr 1, 2018 | News
Staff Report written for the Statehouse File: INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana Connected by 25 has been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Glick Fund to support its efforts to improve education outcomes for K-12 youth in foster care. Only 43 percent of foster children in Indiana earn...
by Foster Success | Feb 21, 2018 | Policy & Practice
Shaina Cavazos writing for Chalkbeat Indiana: Foster children in Indiana – and across the country – likely won’t graduate from high school, and very few of them will go on to college. But foster children are rarely included in state-level discussions about how Indiana...
by Foster Success | Jan 22, 2018 | Policy & Practice
Gabby Gonzalez writing for Fox59: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A bill being considered a the statehouse would push the Indiana Department of Education and the Department of Child Services to more closely track how foster children are doing in schools around the state. House...
by Foster Success | May 4, 2017 | Policy & Practice
Jill Sheridan From ages 7 to 18, Katherine Peraza was a ward of the state, living with a foster family in Indianapolis for most of that time. At 19, she became pregnant. When she went to the doctor, she was hit with a surprise. “All of a sudden when I got...
by Foster Success | Apr 30, 2017 | Policy & Practice
Several hassles for health insurance, driver’s licenses gone Niki Kelly INDIANAPOLIS – Jaquesha Smart didn’t get a driver’s license when she was in foster care, and now struggles to stay on Medicaid at age 21 because of the constant paperwork...
