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FLUX: Life After Foster Care was written to support young people during the emotional transition from foster care to adulthood.Who knows the emotional journey from foster care to adulthood better than...
View ArticleHow to Be A Parent When Your Parent Was A System
Postcard created by someone in or from foster care, as part of FCAA's Culture of Foster Care PostCard Project.I grew up in just about all aspects of the system. Starting with Kinship care, then...
View ArticleEmotional Transition From Foster Care to Adulthood
This postcard was made by someone in or from foster care as part of the FCAA Culture of Foster Care Postcard Project.Flux (n.) continuous change, passage or movementEver wished someone should have been...
View ArticleFLUX Helped Me Heal!
I am a forty-three year old alumna of kinship care. When I was young, I always felt like an outcast as my grandparents stood among the parents of my peers. The fact that I lived with my grandparents...
View ArticleThe Terror of Intimacy
I loved the suggestion inFLUXthat, in order for each of us to move forward, we might need to leave certain things behind.As aformer foster child, the two burdens mentioned in the book that weighed me...
View ArticleFLUX is reviewed in Mockingbird Times
The Mockingbird Times is an online publication about foster care and homelessness, written for and by kids who've lived through both. In Amanda Bevington's words:"Personally, I don’t like to read, but...
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