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Casey Excellence for Children Awards

 

Submission Deadline – July 22, 2011

Casey Family Programs is a national operating foundation committed to improving the lives of children and families. We believe that all children deserve healthy, safe and permanent families, and supportive communities.

The foundation is now accepting nominations for the Casey Excellence for Children Awards.

These annual awards recognize alumni, birth parents, foster parents and kinship caregivers who dedicate themselves to improving the lives of children and families.

Nominees for each constituent group are evaluated on distinguished work, exceptional leadership and relentless dedication in support of their constituent group. The winner also will have … Read more

Listen with your Eyes: A Zine & Exhibit by Foster Youth

Help Support the Arts in the Foster Care Community

Listen with your Eyes is Fostering Art’s first ever zine created by our advanced photography students. The zine features photography and poetry projects by former foster youth that express love, question gender, show faith, document lives and re-imagine the landscape.

Fostering Art is a year-long photography and creative writing program for current and former foster youth in the Bay Area. For over seven years, we’ve been teaching photographic and writing skills to a population that is often invisible, but not by choice. Using images and text, this program assists young artists … Read more