

Youth Voices, Speaking Out about Foster Care
By A Foster Care Alum I have always wondered how much different life would have been in the Big Apple if I hadn’t grown up in foster care. Unlike the uncertainty of city life, foster care came with Two Truths: 1) New York City contracted random families to care for orphans like my three siblings, and myself and 2) this contract was binding until the age of 18, adoption, or aging out. My recent work with the Youth Writes program, which spent two months delivering a strengths-b