Timothy Bell
I often refer to this moment in my life around my 18th birthday where the family I thought would love and support me throughout my life rejected me… or so I thought. In actuality, what had happened was that we had two different ideas about what our […]
Rei Hatayama
1) For me, “aging out” meant a new beginning and was a period in which I had to face challenges associated with being a foster care alumni.
I had a choice of leaving the institutionalized care when I entered college. However, it would have been too difficult for […]
S.Y.
1) For me, aging out of the foster care system was to begin a new life chapter, and at the same time, was to say goodbye to my past. Looking back, I realize that this was only one of the many goodbyes that I experienced in my life…when […]
