Author Description

This unique guide shares the life stories and lessons of former fosters to educate family court judges, case managers, social workers, foster parents, program administrators and staff, guardian ad litem, CASA and other advocates and volunteers how to ensure a healthy placement experience for foster youth and prepare them to successfully transition to adulthood. "Aging out of foster care is a perilous event for foster youth. This is especially true for foster children whose experience in the foster care system included little or no preparation for leaving foster care and who emancipated directly from placement with little or no family support. Left to survive by their wits, this population of foster care kids would seem the most at-risk; yet, some former foster kids somehow manage to successfully navigate leaving foster care and go on to accomplish great things. Unlike most books about foster care and foster parent books, however, this book by foster children uses actual life experiences to present insider knowledge regarding what is required to prepare foster youth for life after foster care. The very personal setbacks, successes and life-lessons conveyed in these ten riveting and revealing foster care memoirs are the soul of this book."--Amazon.com