Sentence examples for support for foster from inspiring English sources
Support for foster carers differs between the states and territories.
New Alternatives provides support for foster and adopted children and their families.
She championed the Family Leave law, children's health insurance, increased support for foster children and adoptions.
The Victorian and Queensland governments have united to pressure the federal government to overhaul support for foster and kinship carers by providing additional Medicare support and tax breaks.
Furthermore, the list of cuts -- in child nutrition, medical care for children, child-care assistance and support for foster care and adoption (leave no child behind!) -- was clearly designed to suggest that the budget can be balanced on the backs of the poor, without any significant cuts in programs that benefit the middle class.
"But the government must ensure it also provides sufficient support for foster families and children in residential care too".
That is why some of us are supporting an amendment to the children and families bill that would make provision for continuing support for former foster children.
Scores of CSUs and UCs and a pair of community colleges have Guardian, Renaissance or Enriched Scholars programs, which offer various levels of support for former foster youth.
But foster youth also need something intangible: the emotional support of a caring adult, said Steve Walsh, director of the Educational Opportunity Program at California State University at Bakersfield, an intensive support program for foster youth and low-income, first generation college students.
Stephen McCall, a consultant who runs a support group for foster parents, said he fielded a frantic call in May from a New York City police officer he had helped persuade to foster her 19-year-old godson.
I was overwhelmed with the responsibility of college and surviving on $6.75 an hour but managed to survive thanks to my home state's support system for foster children and lack of financial burden.
