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Connect Your Skills to Community Service (Learning to Give Video Series)
Learning to Give created this series of videos to help students understand different ways to give back, create awareness and advocate for change.
Connecting Skills and Interest to Community Needs (2:43)
This video helps students think about things they might be good at and connect those skills, passions, and interests to community needs.
Learning to Give: Understanding Advocacy and Action (3:31)
Learning to give time, talent or treasure while taking action for the common good is good for all. This video looks at simple ways to give using time, talents and treasure.
Learning to Give: Advocacy (3:59)
This video defines advocacy and looks at ways of influencing change for the common good and by impacting change through political legislation.. (middle/high school/college)
Learning to Give: Stages of Service Learning (3:28)
This video helps students think about four different ways to serve by connecting the student’s life to learning about the needs in the community.
Learning to Give: Learning Philanthropy and Service Giving-Why do they matter? (3:34)
This video defines, describes, and provides examples of philanthropy and service-learning to inspire students on how to use time, talents or treasures to give back to a community in need.
Hearing Your Voice
A Guide to Your Dependency Court Case (.pdf)
This is a useful resource for a foster child/teen who has been removed from home and is navigating the court system. This document will help keep track of information and understand what’s going to happen as they walk through this overwhelming process.
Look through the eyes of a foster child--past and present.
Foster Care - Through A Child’s Perspective (1:05)
On Average, a child will be placed in 2 to 3 foster homes during their stay. Most of the time, they did this with their belongings in a trash bag.
The Important Role of Foster Parents
What is Foster Care? (3:03)
Foster care parents, social workers and former foster care children share their experiences in the system. They explain the role of foster care parents and give reasons on why foster care parents are so important
Foster Club
Foster Club Florida
This website is a source for former foster youth to find healthcare options.
Florida Youth Shine
This is a youth run, peer driven organization working hard to change the culture of Florida’s child welfare system through changing legislation. The membership of this group primarily consists of the best 13-24 year old youth advocates from across Florida whose lives have been touched by the Florida child welfare system.
Living Alone at 18 Years Old...After “Aging Out” of Foster Care
Reflections on Aging Out of Foster Care (2:29)
A young man offers reflections on living alone after aging out of foster care.
What happens when a teen turns 18 and ages out of foster care?
What is Aging Out? (3:55)
What does “Aging Out” mean? AGING OUT meaning, definitions & Explanation,
American SPCC
American Society for the positive Care of Children
This is a great advocacy website to learn more about different causes that are affecting children.
Kids Matter Inc.
This is a great website to find information about foster care and even to search by topic.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
This is a great website to find statistics about the current state of the foster care system.
Kids Count Data Center - Florida