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Foster Care Websites
- The Alaska Center for Resource Families - Under contract with the State of Alaska Office of Children's Services to provide training and information to foster parents statewide to learn about the children who come into foster care.
- Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge Base – Provides articles and information about teen drug abuse.
- Alaska Department of Education & Early Development – Provides information on districts and schools statewide.
- Alaska Division of Public Health – Provides information on health assessment, health promotion, and disease prevention services. Provides links to health centers statewide.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation, Family-to-Family - A family-centered, neighborhood-based system of foster care promoting permanence for all children.
- Child Welfare League of America – Offers tips on parenting, discipline, and child development.
- Children's Bureau Express - Provides articles, tools, publications, resources. It also provides reports on the latest research, a forum for interdisciplinary communication and links to full-text documents.
- Children’s Bureau Express – Spotlight on Disaster Preparedness - Provides information and links for parents and children on emergency disaster preparedness.
- Children's Rights - A national advocacy group working to reform failing child welfare systems on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of abused and neglected children who depend on them for protection and care.
- Early Childhood – Provides information, products and ideas for parents and teachers.
- Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems – Facilitates the building and implementation of statewide comprehensive systems of care that supports family and community approaches to promoting positive early development and early school success for young children.
- Facing Foster Care in Alaska – FFCA is a critical lifelfine for youth inf foster care and alumni ages 15-24. FFCA provides leadership training, laptop donations, educated child welfare staff and work on the legislative and judicial levels to improve the foster care system.
- Foster Care & Adoptive Community
- Foster Club – The club for foster kids and grown-ups who care.
- Fostering Families Today – Produces a bimonthly magazine and is committed to helping hard-to-place youngsters find families who will accept and love them forever.
- FosterWear – The FosterWear program helps Alaska foster youth obtain quality clothing.
- Generations United – Provides information on kinship care programs, updates on federal and state legislation, legal options, housing, and public benefits.
- Grandparents as Parents (GAP) – Provides programs and services to meet the urgent and ongoing needs of grandparents and other relative caregivers raising at-risk children.
- Indian Child Welfare ACT (ICWA) – Provides technical assistance and training to help child welfare agencies comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of America – Grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
- Notmykid.org - Empowers youth to reach their full potential by inspiring positive life choices.
- National Foster Parent Association – Supports foster parents in achieving safety, permanence and well-being for the children and youth in their care.
- Resource Family Advisory Board – Strengthen and improve support for resource families and the State of Alaska office of Children’s Services (OCS) as we partner to care for Alaska’s Children. Email: akresourcefamilyboard@yahoo.com.
- Stone Soup Group – A statewide non-profit agency based in Anchorage, Alaska that provides assistance and support to families of children with special needs. They operate several programs, each with a specific focus on different ways they can help families supporting children with special needs to become informed, experienced, self-sufficient advocates for their children and themselves.
- United Way Worldwide- Advances the common good, creating opportunities for a better life for all, by focusing on education, income and health.