Category: Advocacy

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

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.

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.

MCF helps families who care for someone with behavioral health needs. Staff provide one-to-one support to parents and caregivers of young people with mental health issues and to any one who cares for someone with a substance use or gambling issue.

Lambda Legal is a Legal rights organization dedicated to representing clients in discrimination cases or violation of rights, selecting cases that will have the greatest impact in protecting and advancing the rights of LGBT people and those with HIV.

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

The MNADV brings together victim service providers, allied professionals, and concerned individuals for the common purpose of reducing intimate partner and family violence and its harmful effects on our citizens.

The Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council is dedicated to advancing the inclusion of Marylanders with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life.

DRM provides free legal services to Marylanders of any age with all types of disabilities (developmental, intellectual, psychiatric, physical, sensory, learning, traumatic brain injury), who live in facilities, in the community or who are homeless.