'From home to home to home,' KC Star's report on foster children featured on NPR

The psychological damage that children and foster care suffer nationwide when they are moved dozens of times from “home to home to home” harms the brain, The KC Star reported on NPR’s Morning Edition. The Star spent most of a year reporting a six-part series on America’s foster care system.

Crossing over: LINC advocates help aging foster children, former juvenile offenders bloom as adults

He’d crossed so many rivers of pain, but foster teen Dillon Spradley found an ally when LINC youth advocate Devon Robinson first appeared in the doorway of his guardian’s apartment.

LINC’s youth advocates have helped hundreds of youths in their transition from state care to living on their own, striving to help older foster children and teenagers in the juvenile justice system overcome perilous odds and become independent, thriving adults.