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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Capacity Building Center for States

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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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Suggested Citation

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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Young Adult, Formerly in Foster Care: This Is My Family, Where I Call Home

Desiree is an alumna of the foster care system. She lived with the same foster care family for 14 years. She entered foster care with three of her siblings, and wants to use her experiences growing up in foster care to make a difference for those still in the system.

Publication Year 2017