Issues in Foster Care: Policy, Practice and Research assesses the current state of foster care, the pressures which have shaped it and the challenges it faces. Arguing the importance of fostering within a coherent child care policy, the contributors examine the latest research into the delivery and support of foster care, and explore how these can be improved. Topics covered include: measuring outcomes in foster care and what can be learned from them the reasons for the growth of foster care at the expense of residential care supporting young people making the transition from care to...

My Street, the economic avenue to Main Street... The My Street Project is the economic change needed to move our economy and society forward that starts at your doorstep. It's the roots of our economic flower where everything needed for growth, exists. In our communities, we have the resources, wants, and people necessary for economic and societal growth. Just like the roots of a plant gathering nutrients found in the ground, My Street works to develop and transport ideas into reality at the surface level of Main Street. Andrew Allen has a Finance Degree from Boise State University and worked...

Have you ever wondered why you can't stick to any diet on a regular basis, or why America is now the fattest nation in the history of civilization? If so, you are not alone. It is all by design. The Vanity Diet is a novel tracking the life of Cyborg Burns, a Las Vegas fitness guru with radical ideas about diet and exercise. Despite completing several life changing transformations, Cyborg watches his clients sucked back into their old eating habits by a mind-numbing force he soon comes to know as The Weightrix. Along the way, Cyborg finds himself facing the challenges of substance abuse,...