Can you remember back to your first Christmas? How old were you? What toys did you open? Emma can remember [. . .]
Feature Stories
Mental Health Minute: How to Talk to Your Children About Their Mental Health
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in six youth aged 6-17 will experience a mental health disorder [. . .]
The Village Network Earns an ‘A’ with Youngstown Schools
As The Village Network team works to help youth and their families to build brighter futures, we look for partners [. . .]
Things You Should & Shouldn’t Say To A Foster Youth
Extended family, friends and neighbors, teachers, children, even foster parents can sometimes find it difficult to know what to say [. . .]
Brighter Walls For Brighter Futures: Seasoned Foster Mom Gives Life To Uhrichsville Office Using Her Own Artistic Expression
Melinda Stutler does not consider herself an artist, but she couldn’t resist the urge to let her inner artist out [. . .]
Helping Youth Find Their Way: Long-time Foster Mom Helps Youth Get On The Right Path
Sometimes from deep personal loss comes something beautiful and unexpected. Just ask Patty Carroll … or the more than 70 [. . .]
Equipping Foster Parents With Tools Of The Trade
A goal on The Village Network’s 2016-2018 Strategic plan was to create a Trauma-Informed Foster Parent Certification Training Program. The [. . .]
Parker Makes The Grade: Integrative team helps autistic student find success
It’s a short walk from J.T. Karaffa Elementary School to Toronto Junior and Senior High School, but it seemed like [. . .]
Mental Health Minute: 10 Warning Signs Your Child May Have A Mental Illness
Children can develop all of the same mental health conditions as adults, but because they’re still learning how to identify [. . .]
Positive Pathways To Adulthood: Transitional Living partners with Goodwill Industries
You are now 18. You are on your own. Now foster care is over and you’ve been couch-surfing for awhile [. . .]