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Advocates: Teens in foster care need a place to belong

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 8:05pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Tears and joy mixed Saturday as a panel of foster-parent advocates discussed their experiences of taking in teenagers or of being taken in themselves.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Tammy Budge dishes out food to her adoptive children, (from left) Cora, Kimball, Joey, Angel, Junior and Kadun, during dinner at their house in Ogden on Thursday.

Budge family adopts all seven of its children

Amber Mae Weston Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 8:35am

About 6 p.m. each night, the Budge household appears to be like many others.

Mom rushes around preparing dinner, Dad helps the older kids with homework, siblings pick fights with one another, and one asks when dinner will be ready.

But as far as Brad and Tammy Budge are concerned, their family is anything but ordinary. In fact, they believe the very existence of their family is a miracle.

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Billboards seek more foster families in rural Utah

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 11:59am

ROOSEVELT -- The Utah Foster Care Foundation is using billboards to recruit more foster families in underserved eastern Utah.

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Tech. Sgt. Steven Frazier, an active-duty member of the 388th Fighter Wing, watches Rigby (center) and Oslo, both 3, go through their Christmas stockings at the Burke family home in North Salt Lake on Thursday. Each year, airmen from Hill Air Force base deliver donated gifts to hundreds of children in foster care through the Utah Foster Care Foundation's Giving Tree program. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hill airmen deliver Christmas to foster care children

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:59am

NORTH SALT LAKE -- Christmas came early for Top of Utah foster care families Thursday.

About 80 uniformed airmen from Hill Air Force Base's 388th and 419th fighter wings gathered at the Utah Foster Care Foundation offices in Ogden to help package and deliver Christmas gifts to foster and adoptive families in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Cache counties.

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Author Sam Bracken speaks at the Old First United Methodist Church of Ogden during a conference for the Utah Foster Care Foundation on Wednesday.

Mentoring program helps teens in foster care

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 11:23pm

OGDEN — Kaylla’s desire is to play for the WNBA.

The 17-year-old high school senior hopes that with a bit more hard work she will make her high school’s basketball team this year, then play for a college team, then on to the pros.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Lourdes Nava (center) talks with her son, Fernando, about the homework he has to finish. The Navas have also had foster children at their home during the last three years, but not at the time of these pictures.

State in need of more Latino foster parents

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 9:22pm

CLINTON -- For children entering the foster care system, showing up at a stranger's house can be a scary situation.

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Foster children struggle with identity theft

Paresh Dave, Scripps Howard News Service Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 3:24pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Four years after Sacramento County Child Protective Services removed Katrina Haywood from her mother's abusive grip, the woman still has managed to stand in the way of her daughter entering college, finding a job or paying for the roof over her head.

Haywood, 18, has spent two months starting to clean up a mess that foster care workers say she couldn't have prevented.

Eight entities, including Bank of America and Pacific Gas and Electric, want a total of $6,000 from Haywood. She says her birth mother started opening lines of credit using subtly crafted aliases and Haywood's Social Security number. Since the bills weren't paid, the credit history associated with Haywood's Social Security number is filled with accounts in poor standing.

Exiting the state's 60,000-member foster system at about the age of 18 is hard enough for teenagers such as Haywood. For one to five out of every 10 children, the situation is even worse. Their Social Security numbers and birthdays -- easily accessible to birth parents, foster parents, siblings, social workers and courts -- were hijacked so others could get quick cash from banks, keep electricity and water flowing, avoid criminal conviction or even save on taxes and medical costs.

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