What’s It Like to Be In Foster Care: Former Foster Youth Speak Out

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. In this episode we talk with a panel of four former foster youth to find out what it is like to be raised in foster care and what they wish foster parents knew about the experience. In this episode, we cover: What was the experience of being removed from your home and taken from your parents? Was there something that your foster parents could have done when you were first placed in the home to help alleviate some of the ...

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