Young Adult, Formerly in Foster Care: Your Past Doesn’t Dictate Your Future

Watch as Amnoni relates her experience in the foster car system, including her struggles and quest for stability and normalcy.

Publication year: 2017
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Shares Amnoni’s story about her experience in the foster care system; her struggle to find stability, normalcy, and familial support; and her decision to never let the past dictate her future.

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Capacity Building Center for States (2021). Young Adult, Formerly in Foster Care: Your Past Doesn’t Dictate Your Future. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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