September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Did you know youth who experience foster care are 4x more likely to attempt suicide than other youth? It's a sobering thought, but information is power. We want to provide you with information to help address this mental health crisis in your home and your community. Research proves that foster parents can and do have a positive impact on children! Here are some great resources with tips on parenting youth in foster care and talking to kids about suicide: one from the National Suicide Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, one from Foster Focus magazine, and one from the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Finally, if you want to help spread the word about suicide prevention, check out the social media graphics you can download here.

Tomorrow, September 25, is also National Quesadilla Day! Here's a post by a blogger who writes her posts in both Spanish and English - there's tons of cute ideas for a quesadilla bar.

Meet Grayson!  Grayson needs a couple that can devote time and attention to him. If you are empty nesters and looking for the opportunity to mentor and parent a child into a strong adulthood, please read more about Grayson here in our Heart Gallery.

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