Two Brothers Survive Foster Care. Now One Pushes for Reform With the Other in Mind [kansascity.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/23/197:00 PM

By Laura Bauer, The Kansas City Star, December 22, 2019

In a hallway inside Indiana’s Capitol, the young man walks up to a state senator and gives her a quick hug.

“Hey, it’s Josh Christian,” he tells Sen. Erin Houchin, a member of the Senate’s child welfare committee. “I went to Capitol Hill and I got published. It was crazy!”

The encounter would have seemed more than unlikely just a few years ago, when Christian was one of the thousands of kids in Indiana’s foster care system. In about 18 years, he was moved to 18 different places. The experiences were so deflating he had given up on ever finding his forever family.

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