Generational Foster Care in Native American Communities

1/23/2024

Generational Foster Care in Native American Communities

Due to my experiences in foster care, I forgot how to dance in powwows, as well as other Native traditions, writes Shawna Bullen-Fairbanks.

A Foster Youth's Journey towards Healing

1/16/2024

A Foster Youth’s Journey Towards Healing

Despite my trauma, I’m pleased because of how clear my spirit feels today. But I still stumble, writes Jeremiah Bennett.

12/19/2023

Best of Youth Voices Rising, 2023

Some of our strongest pieces published by the Youth Voices Rising program in 2023

Lost and Found

11/9/2023

Lost and Found

While I felt lost for so long, I now feel strong. I want every current and former Foster to feel like this, writes Vivian Dudley.

Lost and Found

11/8/2023

Getting my Ducks in a Row

The more I started asking questions, the more foster parents got upset with me. Fosters deserve answers to their questions, writes Kia Crist.

Lost and Found

11/7/2023

We Are Grieving

I was grieving the person that I could have been — the one without the deep mistrust and anxiety, writes Elaine Allen.

Lost and Found

11/6/2023

Where Do Reimbursement Checks Go?

We need to start talking about what goes on with these reimbursement checks — the good and the bad, writes Chloe Gartner.

Lost and Found

11/2/2023

My Sister is a Stranger

It would be easier to talk to a stranger than to my sister because a stranger wouldn’t have this trauma connected to them, writes Erin Gantz.

Lost and Found

11/1/2023

Surviving the System

I have PTSD, anxiety, and depression, all from a system that was supposed to protect me, writes Audriana Clifton.