Bay Area Homes for Kids

By Nicole
I have sort of a fairy tale foster care experience. While it hasn’t been easy, I have had a permanent home and am in a guardianship situation. Recently, though, I was talking with other former foster youth and got to thinking about how permanency for foster youth really is complicated. In a sense, foster […]

After my first foster home, I lived with these people that was planning to adopt me, but they didn’t ’cause they had a baby of their own.  After that I went to another foster home that was gonna adopt me.  There were seven of us - the lady said that she wanted a big family.  […]

My mom gave me up because she was going through drug therapy and she couldn’t get rid of the drugs, so she had to get rid of something.  She didn’t want me to be mistreated, so she gave me away.  Foster care was going from one house to another house and rules and stuff changing.  […]

When I was in foster care, people would say things to me like, “Oh, you look like you could go to college,” encouraging kinds of things, but there wasn’t a lot of hands-on help. It was more like, “Go get yourself a job,” and “We’ll consider you successful if you can hold down a job […]

On Their Own, a new book about life after foster care wins award. From Jim Casey Youth Initiatives site:
“On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System” is a winner of the Pro Humanitate Literary Award, North America’s premier literary award for the field of child welfare. The […]