Defining Moments: How the Foster Care System Can Be a Stepping Stone [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 4/30/1811:05 AM

“I told them we were being taken and I didn’t know where we were going and when we were coming back.”

That’s how Kaysie, then 14, recalls telling her friends about the fact that she and her siblings were headed to foster care. What was supposed to be a weekend stay turned into seven years in the system.

The words strength and resilience are often used to characterize youth in care. They got through it because they are tough, they’re successful because they have grit. We want to find reasons why some make it, are successful and some don’t.

[For more on this story by Mira Zimet, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...stepping-stone/30636]

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