Law, Rights, and Advocacy

 It’s Your Life helps LGBTQ youth in foster care navigate the child welfare system. Explore this site to understand your rights and receive the care and attention you are entitled to.

--->http://new.abanet.org/child/Pages/lgbtq.youth.aspx

Click Here for an Empowerment PowerPoint.  When you open it a box will pop-up & click "Read Only".  The Power Point will open. 

Below are some documents that provide information on

YOUR RIGHTS as a youth in Foster Care.

There are also some helpful Websites that provide both local and national

Information on your rights as a youth in Foster Care.

The Covenant with North Carolina’s Children is a coalition of over 60 service providers, civic associations, and advocacy organizations who have formed a covenant by promising to advance public policy that benefits children and families in North Carolina and to put children and youth first in our public and private lives.

*The website for the NC Covenant is also listed below.*

Documents:

 Becoming Your Own Advocate

 Your Rights in Foster Care

 Foster Care Timeline

Websites:

http://booster.fosterclub.com/

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/homePage.pl

 http://www.nccovenant.org/