Personal Stories

The Unseen Impact:  How New Bags Bring Dignity to Foster Children

The Unseen Impact: How New Bags Bring Dignity ...

Children face numerous challenges during their journey through the foster care system, with one of the most heartrending being the loss of personal dignity and stability. Moving from home to...

The Unseen Impact: How New Bags Bring Dignity ...

Children face numerous challenges during their journey through the foster care system, with one of the most heartrending being the loss of personal dignity and stability. Moving from home to...

Making a Meaningful Contribution: The Benefits of Donating New Bags to Foster Children

Making a Meaningful Contribution: The Benefits ...

Making a Meaningful Contribution:  The Benefits of Donating New Bags to Foster Children For children and youth placed in foster care, life can be confusing and uncertain. The transition can...

Making a Meaningful Contribution: The Benefits ...

Making a Meaningful Contribution:  The Benefits of Donating New Bags to Foster Children For children and youth placed in foster care, life can be confusing and uncertain. The transition can...

Perspective of a Child Protective Services Investigator for the State of Tennessee

Perspective of a Child Protective Services Inve...

I have spent my entire adult life to this point training and educating myself in Child welfare, trauma, and the foster care system. I don’t know if I would call...

Perspective of a Child Protective Services Inve...

I have spent my entire adult life to this point training and educating myself in Child welfare, trauma, and the foster care system. I don’t know if I would call...

Roxy's Story

Roxy's Story

We had 16 Foster children through our home in two and a half years. We had ages newborn to 18. And still, each and every time a child arrived with...

Roxy's Story

We had 16 Foster children through our home in two and a half years. We had ages newborn to 18. And still, each and every time a child arrived with...

Elizabeth’s Personal System and Guide for Aging Out Youth

Elizabeth’s Personal System and Guide for Aging...

I am No Ordinary Liz. That’s how I introduce myself, because my story is one that is almost too extraordinary to believe. But the lessons I learned along the way,...

Elizabeth’s Personal System and Guide for Aging...

I am No Ordinary Liz. That’s how I introduce myself, because my story is one that is almost too extraordinary to believe. But the lessons I learned along the way,...

Jackie's Story

Jackie's Story

I had no idea....I thought I knew about how the foster care system worked and I believed that the system would automatically work to protect an innocent child. When my...

Jackie's Story

I had no idea....I thought I knew about how the foster care system worked and I believed that the system would automatically work to protect an innocent child. When my...