Colorado (click here for the article) has found a way to help teenage foster children cope with being in foster care. They have set up a website that they can visit to get information concerning gangs, teen pregnancy, depression, bullying and other topics.

There is also an area that teens can ask questions and get answers back while keeping their privacy.

This website allows teens to understand that they are not the only teens living in foster care. It is a place to allow teens to come together to share with other teens. They can also post pictures, poems, etc.

The Health Department also provides information to teens concerning health issues that they may be facing. It also educates them about health issues from everything to safe sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and everything in between. This can be a great help to teenagers that mostly have not had the guidance to make informed choices in their lives? To hear all this from a foster parent can be harder for the foster children to hear, since they do not have relationship to fall back on.

Below is a statement of why they decided to do the website.

"We wanted to have a site where kids didn't feel so alone and alienated and could relate to other teens," says Shannon Richter, executive director of Journeys. "These children are taken from their homes and put in someone else's home. Kids at school can be cruel to them; they can pick up on the fact they're in foster care and will ask, ‘Why are you here?”

Every resource that we give the teenage foster child is a step in the right directions. Teenage foster children have so many challenges to overcome, that we have to find ways to get them through this part of their life.