Foster Success

A collaboration between a Fishers Girl Scout troop, a local nonprofit and State Senator Kyle Walker (R-Lawrence) created legislation to help foster care children work through trauma.

A new statewide program aims to help hundreds of students in foster care determine how to achieve their post-high school goals.

Foster Success recently announced its new Health and Well-Being program to help teens and young adults transition from pediatric to adult health care.

A lack of quality data collected by Indiana's colleges and universities is likely causing them to underestimate the severity of students' housing and food insecurity. That was one of the findings in a new report released by the state's Commission for Higher Education.

Indianapolis has a goal to end youth homelessness by 2023. WFYI City Policy Reporter Jill Sheridan covers efforts to reach that goal, and today we look more closely at work to help a group especially vulnerable to youth homelessness.