Soulful Liberation

Welcome to our segment to expand on the quotes featured in The Black Foster Youth Handbook: 50+ Lessons I learned to successfully age-out of foster care and holistically heal

Today's Quote:

“You might be temporary in their lives or they might be temporary in yours. But there is nothing temporary about the love or the lesson.” 

 -Tonia Christle

Foster Care is a whole other world that most of the world’s population knows little to nothing about. Many people do not know the very low statistics young people endure in order to successfully age-out of foster care.

Less than 5% of young people with the experience of foster care graduate post-secondary education. There are many youth who become prey to sex-trafficking or susceptible to suicide due to homelessness, mental health challenges and no support system. Now, couple the child welfare system with the element of racial injustices and the history of white supremacy and the topic may even become taboo.

Ángela Quijada-Banks, a woman of African and Indigenous descent has taken the liberty of giving back to these communities for a half a decade through advocacy, advisory and organizational training. Through her travels across the nation, speaking to congressional members, federal stakeholders and constituents of the foster care system she decided some sort of manual was needed to combat the shocking low success rates of young people with the background of foster care. This handbook is written to be supplemental to young people in foster care’s navigation through foster care and healing beyond it.

Supportive adults such as foster/resource parents, case managers, GALs, therapists and social workers will also find this to be helpful in their roles in young people’s lives. Success is possible regardless of where you come from, you just have to know where to look, who to trust and believe in the one person that can get you to the other side of pain and trauma, you.

Learn more about The Black Foster Youth Handbook here:

https://www.blackfostercareyouthhandbook.com/

Learn more about the mission of Soulful Liberation at www.soulfulliberation.com 

Instagram: @souful_liberation

Twitter: @Soulful_lib

Welcome to our segment to expand on the quotes featured in The Black Foster Youth Handbook: 50+ Lessons I learned to successfully age-out of foster care and holistically heal

Foster Care is a whole other world that most of the world’s population knows little to nothing about. Many people do not know the very low statistics young people endure in order to successfully age-out of foster care.

Less than 5% of young people with the experience of foster care graduate post-secondary education. There are many youth who become prey to sex-trafficking or susceptible to suicide due to homelessness, mental health challenges and no support system. Now, couple the child welfare system with the element of racial injustices and the history of white supremacy and the topic may even become taboo.

Ángela Quijada-Banks, a woman of African and Indigenous descent has taken the liberty of giving back to these communities for a half a decade through advocacy, advisory and organizational training. Through her travels across the nation, speaking to congressional members, federal stakeholders and constituents of the foster care system she decided some sort of manual was needed to combat the shocking low success rates of young people with the background of foster care. This handbook is written to be supplemental to young people in foster care’s navigation through foster care and healing beyond it.

Supportive adults such as foster/resource parents, case managers, GALs, therapists and social workers will also find this to be helpful in their roles in young people’s lives. Success is possible regardless of where you come from, you just have to know where to look, who to trust and believe in the one person that can get you to the other side of pain and trauma, you.

Learn more about The Black Foster Youth Handbook here:

https://www.blackfostercareyouthhandbook.com/

Learn more about the mission of Soulful Liberation at www.soulfulliberation.com 

Instagram: @souful_liberation

Welcome to the journey toward Soulful Liberation :)!

Kwanzaa's seventh principle is Imani.

Imani means faith:

 "To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle."

Listen as Ángela Quijada-Banks recounts how the start of 2020 did not determine her year and how you can completely change what's possible for you in 2021 and beyond!

If you are someone looking to write a book or for a mastermind community, head over to www.soulfulliberation.com and apply !

See you next time !

Listen as Leyda and Ángela ( Angie ) chat about

Navigating her culture and loss of a parent while graduating a semester early with her BSW 💙

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Instagram: Garcia.Greenawalt

 Twitter: garcigreenawalt

 LinkedIn: leyda-Garcia 

 Research Publications: •Federal Policy Proposal: Youth Expungements https://ugresearchjournals.illinois.edu/index.php/juswr/article/download/632/554

•A Systematic Review of Women Involved in the Criminal Justice System: Intersections with Intimate Partner Violence and the Child Welfare System https://ugresearchjournals.illinois.edu/index.php/juswr/article/view/595

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July is here!

The Black Foster Youth Handbook available for PRE-ORDER at 40% as of August 20th

on www.originalsoulflower.com

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Listen as Laquita and Ángela ( Angie ) chat about

Overcoming Podophobia in foster care, being a co-founder to a non-profit for foster youth and navigating self love 💙

Laquita Howell is the co-founder of

Opportunities Knocking TLP

Opportunities Knocking tlp can be found on Facebook under oktlp

IG: @laquitahowell

In our next episode we dive into How she overcame a very unusual fear and made it a powerhouse  of confidence instead!

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IG: @Originalsoulflower

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July is here!

The Black Foster Youth Handbook available for PRE-ORDER JULY 8,2020

on www.originalsoulflower.com

Laquita Howell's poem about a time when she was a high schooler in Fostercare, 

going through lots of struggles to find her own voice and self worth.

Laquita Howell is the co-founder of Opportunities Knocking TLP

Opportunities Knocking tlp can be found on Facebook under oktlp

IG: @laquitahowell

In our next episode we dive into How she overcame a very unusual fear and made it a powerhouse  of confidence instead!

//Connect with us on

IG : @Soulful_Liberation

Twitter : @Soulful_Lib

//Lola's Instagram

IG: @queen_sophisticated_

//Angi's Instagram :

IG: @Originalsoulflower

Visit www.originalsoulflower.com to learn more!

July is here!

The Black Foster Youth Handbook available for PRE-ORDER JULY 8,2020

on www.originalsoulflower.com

In this episode, Angi talks about

-What Juneteenth is

-Why's it's so important and 

-How we can celebrate it this year and the many years to come!

Today is  independence day for people of African Descent , those that have ancestors that were enslaved. 

Today marks a day where many years ago, a union general by the name of Gordon Granger gave an order that officially ended the enslavement of people with a certain shade of skin color.

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Read the Emancipation Proclamation here:

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/emancipate.htm

Check out Angela Quijada-Banks's

New book for BLACK FOSTER YOUTH on her website:

Available for PreOrder July 8th,2020

www.originalsoulflower.com

Angela Quijada-Banks poem about foster care " Caged in Care"

I wrote this poem while in Okinawa, Japan. 

It is featured in a collaborative book with other alumni of the foster care system, social workers and foster parents

 published by The EMPTY FRAMES INITIATIVE, a non profit organizations that supports foster youth.

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May is #mentalhealthawareness & #fostercareawareness

How are you bringing light to these issues this month?

What is one way you have shown resilience in spite of mental health/ foster care challenges?

Own Your Emotions

In this episode we taking time to take a deeper talk around "Emotion".

How do we handle emotions like anger and what we 

We hope you enjoy it!

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May is #mentalhealthawareness & #fostercareawareness

How are you bringing light to these issues this month?

What is one way you will focus your energy in motion?

There are many thoughts around how one should feel in comparison to others.

Listen to Lola's perspective  as she conveys her take on  this, in her poem : Emotion.

We hope you enjoy it!

Connect with us on

 IG : @Soulful_Liberation

Twitter : @Soulful_Lib

Lola's Instagram

IG: @queen_sophisticated_

Angi's Instagram :

IG: @originalsoulflower

May is #mentalhealthawareness & #fostercareawareness

How are you bringing light to these issues this month?