by MRPA Team | Mar 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Event Notifications
Update Message on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) The University of Maryland has provided directives and guidelines that, effective immediately, limits meetings and large gatherings, encourages social distancing, remote working and learning, and tightens guidance regarding...
by MRPA Team | Mar 9, 2020 | Scholarships
MRPA would like to share this post from the NFPA about their scholarship offerings for the June, 2020 conference. Conference scholarships will be awarded to 24 foster, adoptive, or kinship caregivers to assist in attending the National Foster Parent...
by MRPA Team | Mar 2, 2020 | Census 2020, MRPA News
The 2020 Census Is Approaching It is critical that ALL children be counted accurately. View the toolkit, below, on the Count All Kids.org website to learn more about how YOU can make sure all children in your community are counted.
by MRPA Team | Feb 13, 2020 | MRPA News, Scholarships
MRPA would like to share this notification about NFPA Scholarships! 2020 Scholarship Applications Now Open The National Foster Parent Association’s Youth and Continuing Education Scholarship Fund was established to benefit foster, adoptive, and birth children of...
by MRPA Team | Feb 13, 2020 | Event Notifications
Conference Registration Now Open! Date: Friday, March 20 & Saturday, March 21, 2020 Location: NEW Maryland Judicial Center in Annapolis, Maryland! 187 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis, Maryland 21401 Theme: Reimagining Foster Care Conference Website DAY ONE...
by MRPA Team | Feb 4, 2020 | Articles
New federal program helps young adults aging out of foster care: “Who would think that I would go to college?” Every year, more than 20,000 teenagers age out of the foster care system. Within four years, about 5,000 of them are homeless. A new federal...
by MRPA Team | Jan 29, 2020 | Event Notifications
RESOURCE PARENT SPRING CONFERENCE: Registration now open! Saturday, March 21, 2020, 8:00am-4:00pm Chesapeake College, 100 College Circle, Wye Mills, MD 21679 REGISTER HERE Please join the Maryland Resource Parent Association, Department of Human Services, and the...
by MRPA Team | Dec 18, 2019 | Articles
Quote from the article: He still has the last name of a woman who adopted him in grade school — then gave him back. From the time he was 3 until he turned 14, Dominic Williamson was bounced to 80 different foster homes. When he turned 18, he found himself alone and...
by MRPA Team | Nov 5, 2019 | MRPA News
MRPA would like to share the following letter from Ms. Jones Gaston with our Resource Families. November 1, 2019 Dear Colleagues, Partners, and Friends, It is bittersweet to pen this letter as I depart from the Maryland Department of Human Services Social Services...
