Category: National

A checklist to help keep track of college application materials and deadlines.

My Life is Worth Living™ is the first animated series that models the human connection shown to be protective against suicide. The series tells stories of characters who face some of the most difficult issues that young people deal with and shows their evolution in the key decision: that life is worth living.

Find a support group via the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The AFSP has provided everyone suffering from thoughts of suicide with a feature to search for support groups nearby.

Effective suicide prevention requires multiple approaches and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center provides resources, programs, trainings, and more.

SAMHSA is a partner of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a public-private partnership advancing the national strategy for suicide prevention. Suicide is a serious public health problem that causes immeasurable pain, suffering, and loss to individuals, families, and communities nationwide.

Here are five tips to help maintain physical, social and mental well-being while observing guidelines for social spacing in this period of increased concern about contracting the Coronavirus (the virus that causes COVID-19).

The official Coronavirus (COVID-19) website created by the United States Government provides information and guidelines for dealing with all aspects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are providing health considerations and tools for operating during COVID-19.

This Command Center houses resources and guidance for foster care individuals and organizations affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our LGBT patients can see any Chase Brexton provider and receive welcoming, affirming, and informed healthcare.

The National Center for Housing and Child Welfare exists to make sure that children are never placed into foster care because their parents can’t access decent housing.

The Aging Out Institution promotes resources and strategies that help youth age out of foster care and into adulthood successfully.

The Mission of The Fostering Change Network: Empower. The Fostering Change Network unites and empowers alumni of foster care globally while supporting their personal and professional endeavors and dispelling the foster care stigma.

The Foster Coalition is providing a in-the-works list of companies & organizations around the United States that hire current and former foster youth

Built on a youth organizing framework, Foster Youth In Action’s strategies include training foster youth organizers, building local group capacity, and creating connections across a network of local groups.

For more than four decades, Covenant House has helped transform and save the lives of more than a million homeless, runaway and trafficked young people. We offer housing and support services to young people in need.

National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), or AmeriCorps NCCC is an AmeriCorps program that engages 18- to 24-year-olds in team-based national and community service in the United States.

The National Foster Youth Institute envisions a nation where all children are raised in safe and loving families and where the child welfare system serves as a beacon of hope for families in need.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability in the nation’s financial system by insuring deposits and supervising financial institutions for safety and consumer protection.

With a health care experience designed around kids’ unique needs, Children’s National Hospital is the premier provider of pediatric services in the Washington, D.C., metro area and its only health system specializing in kids.

Roomies is a free self service website where you need to search online for potential rooms and roomies. You need to communicate with other users directly through the website to ask questions or arrange a viewing.

Need help filling out your FAFSA application? Look here for tools and tutorials to help guide you through the process.

The toll-free phone and SMS text lines and live online chat function are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Help is available in English or Spanish, or in more than 200 additional languages through an on-call interpreter.

The Ansell Casey Life Skills Assessment is a great tool used to determine your level of independent living skills. The assessment tool is completed by you and your adult supporter (i.e. caregiver, case worker, Independent Living Coordinator).

Highly-trained advocates offer support, information and advocacy to young people who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships. Free and confidential phone, live chat and texting services are available 24/7/365.

Since 2003, Anthony ONeal has helped thousands of students make good decisions with their money, relationships and education. In his video, Anthony shares with you some interview tips to help you get the job that you want.

The Job Corps program helps eligible young people ages 16 through 24 complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, and assists them with obtaining employment. In addition, Job Corps provides transitional support services.

Change to Chill provides online and printable tools and resources that help teens become more aware of what stress is, what causes it and how to manage it.

The MCAC is open to all high school students. The goal of the college campaign is to increase the number of first generation and low-income students, unaccompanied and foster care youth, and others underrepresented in higher education.

Fostering Terp Success is a campus wide community of support and belonging for students who were or are in foster care, are homeless, at risk of being homeless or without a supportive family system.

StopBullying provides resources for teens who want to help younger children launch a bullying prevention project.

FosterClub creates and connects young people from foster care with unique tools and programs, and engages young people to transform life for themselves, their peers, and to ultimately improve the child welfare system.

BabyCenter is committed to improving maternal health globally to make motherhood safer for all women. Through the Mission Motherhood® campaign, BabyCenter content is delivered to moms in underserved areas and is available in 23 local languages.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.

The NRS is the federally designated national runaway and homeless youth crisis hotline and online service in the United States. The mission of the NRS is to keep America’s runaway, homeless and at-risk youth safe and off the streets.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. is here to provide you with exceptional reproductive health care. Everything you need to know, from general health care to birth control for both men and women.

Year Up provides young adults with the professional and technical skills hiring companies need, ensuring they can launch successful professional careers, while providing American businesses an untapped source for bright, motivated young talent.

As the sole provider of the official GED test, GED Testing Service provides detailed information on GED testing, preparation resources, and blogging content.

AdoptUSKids is a national project that supports child welfare systems and supplys information, resources, and referrals, as well as connects families seeking to foster and adopt with children and their caseworkers.

Practical Money Skills features a series of interactive games developed to build money management skills and understanding of savings, investing, credit, debt management, etc.

FAFSA, short for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, is a part of the U.S. Department of Education and the largest provider of student financial aid in the nation.