Sep 25, 2020
At the age of 12-years-old, Janice was removed from her home with two brothers due to physical and continuous sexual abuse. She transitioned in and out of emergency shelters, foster homes, and relative placements and attended over 10 different schools throughout her youth. After facing even more sexual abuse at...
May 1, 2020
Elisha
Elisha is a youth specialist for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. As well as a proud mom, wife, and aged out alumna. Elisha was removed from her family at the age of 6. In Part 2 of her story, Elisha tells us about going through college as an aged out youth and describes her career as a...
Apr 1, 2020
Elisha is a youth specialist for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. As well as a proud mom, wife, and aged out alumni. Elisha was removed from her family at the age of 6. In Part 1 of her story, Elisha recounts being removed from her home with her 3 siblings and the challenges she overcame in the...
Feb 28, 2020
In Part Two of Jimmy’s story, he discusses the overmedication of foster children in the system, the graduation rate of foster care children, and reforms for the funding of foster families. Jimmy also discusses the biases and challenges that foster children face in the education system, the challenges of aging out of...
Jan 28, 2020
In Part One of Jimmy’s story, he recounts entering the foster care system at age 7 and being placed in 6 different foster homes. During his stay in foster care, he was physically abused in one home, ran away from another, and while in a shelter, lost touch with everyone that he cared about. After being moved from...