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Resilience Youth Serving Organizations

Why Youth Organizations Should Encourage Trade School
ByDebbie Ausburn May 6, 2026

This week your calendar has two observances that belong in the same conversation. National Foster Care Day fell on Tuesday. National Skilled Trades Day is today. That overlap is coincidental. The importance of trade school to foster youth is not. I have spent years working in…

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Foster, Adoptive, & Blended Families Research

Trade School is Not Always Second-Best for Our Kids
ByDebbie Ausburn May 5, 2026

When I was a foster parent, the question of “what comes after high school” sat differently for me and my kids than it did for most of my friends. The assumption in those conversations — that college was the next logical step, the obvious goal…

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