FosterClub Learning Lab
Turn your Lived Experience into Leadership!
This is the place to start when you're new to SPARK Workshops. Make sure you know what all the letters in the SPARK acronym mean, why we emphasize something a little different than "hard skills," and how these workshops were meant to be facilitated.
Want to find your voice and learn how sharing your story can help others? Learn how to reframe foster care experiences as expertise and how to safely tell stories by retaining boundaries.
Access our full library of SPARK workshops! On-demand, youth-centered learning for foster and transition-age youth covering life skills, financial literacy, housing, employment, and self-advocacy the FosterClub Way.
The holiday season can be especially challenging for young people in care. This session offers tools to navigate end-of-year stress, create new traditions, and build joyful, meaningful connections.
Your Care, Your Call empowers young adults to take charge of their health. Learn the basics of Medicaid eligibility, how to find the right providers, and how to advocate for yourself so you can navigate health care with confidence.
Dreaming of Home helps you imagine your own space, the people you want around you, and how it should feel. Through fun activities, honest talk, and hands-on budget games, you’ll explore what it takes to build a home that’s safe, personal, and yours.
This interactive workshop explores how instability and financial stress shape money decisions. Participants learn how credit scores affect access to housing, loans, and services, and practice protecting their identity through real-life scenarios.
A series of group-based workshops to grow coping skills and build resilience for young people with foster care experience. Revisions of work originating with researchers at Portland State University - 2020.
In session one of this five part series, participants will start by exploring the connections between stress, trauma related to experiencing foster care, and the behaviors they use to cope.