Former Foster Kids Share Their Visions for the Future -- interviews with people who grew up in the child services system call for preventive, compassionate support (The Tyee)
Across Canada at any given time, more than 50,000 children and youth are living in government-paid placements through the child services system. Most of the 50,000 children live in foster placements, and others live with extended family or in congregate settings called group homes. Children are placed in the child services system when their parents can’t take care of them. It’s traumatizing to be separated from one’s parents and removed from one’s family home. Throughout their lives, children and youth in the child services system may be moved several times for reasons outside of their control ... CLICK HERE for the full story