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By Sharon Dunlevy
Foster parenting is sacred work. It’s also some of the most emotionally and physically taxing work a person can do. While we pour everything we have into caring for children who have experienced trauma, it’s easy to forget to care for the one constant in their lives: ourselves.
Burnout isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a real, measur...
This New York Times Bestseller is a historical fiction novel based on the Tennessee Children’s Home Society operated by Georgia Tann from the 1920s to the 1950s in Memphis. “Before We Were Yours” tells the story of Rill Foss and her siblings who were stolen from their parents and adopted out to other families.
While the book is fiction, the characters and the events th...
Written in a simple style that would resonate with school children and adults alike, this book follows the journey of Malcolm Montgomery, a seventh grader. Waiting to be adopted, Malcolm is described at the outset as, “If there were a prize for being unlucky, Malcolm would’ve won it.”
Having lived with nine different foster families, Malcolm has a list of items he need...
After entering foster care at 3 years old, Charell Star spent many of her childhood years fitting herself into other people’s spaces. So, when she awoke alone in the quiet of her New York condo on her 30th birthday, she was struck by the realization that she’d finally fulfilled an enduring wish: At last, she had a place that was all her own.
Star, 44, is now a TV host ...
New Documentary Film Produced by Los Angeles Foster Youth Explores the Pain and Failed Promise of Psychiatric Drugs
By Jeremy Loudenback
As a high school sophomore in Los Angeles, former foster youth Kyshawna Johnson started flushing her psychotropic drugs down the toilet. She’d been told to take them since age 6. But they made her feel drowsy and emoti...
