Watch What Happens When Former NYC Foster Kids Speak Truth to Power [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/5/1612:00 PM

You can hear the frustration — and need — in each of their voices as this group of young adults, who grew up in foster care, give youth workers some heartfelt advice on working with foster youth.

These current and former foster youth participated in a two-day gathering focused on transitioning from care, hosted at New York University. One emphatic reminder they offer: "These kids need more resources, these kids need more help, these kids need someone they can trust."

Watch What Happens When Former NYC Foster Kids Speak Truth to Power from JJIE Multimedia on Vimeo.

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Robert OlcottMember

Fifty years ago, in N.Y.S., as an "Emancipated Minor", I too, would have welcomed some "help" when I left a state-run youth home, and "transitioned" to my own apartment, after "couch-surfing" for two months, during my senior year in High School [working part-time for Kodak]. It's hard to imagine that fifty years later, such challenges for young people, in N.Y.S., still exist. I later witnessed it in the Southeast Bronx, in the early 1970's, where medical residents in a brownstone took in teenagers still attending high school. Kudos to JJIE for publishing this, and taking an advocacy role in this public policy matter.

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