LGBT Issues in Fostercare
This is just a list of good resources I have found regarding LGBT issues in the foster care system. I’m working on a workshop for Creating Change 2007 and gathering information. Figured I might as well share this here.
Legal Translations: LGBT People and the California Foster Care System
By Sarah Colby, LGBTQ Youth Project Attorney
Legal Services for Children, San Francisco
(Article originally published in the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco, California)
http://nclrights.org/publications/lgltrnsltnfostercare.htm
- This response focuses on the situation in California and is a few years out of date, but hits many (but not all) of the issues facing LGBT youth in foster care and LGBT adults looking to be foster parents.