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Ananda is forced to reevaluate her idea of a “foster kid” when she becomes one. Shakree has to figure out where he, and his daughter, are headed in life.
Shakree’s mother died when he was five, leaving him to bounce from home to home for much of the next decade. Ananda’s mother’s troubles sent Ananda from New Hampshire to New Jersey to live with her stranger of a father. How do these adolescents respond to developmental years filled with turmoil and instability? Listen to find out.
Kaysie would not be adopted. Left to figure out her own future, she began a new chapter in Camden, New Jersey. This week on What the Foster?, witness the final part of Kaysie’s story as she finds the path that would eventually turn her from an average high school student to a successful, driven social worker and advocate for foster youth.
What the Foster? is produced by embrella, a New Jersey foster care non-profit. “For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org. To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org.
12 foster care placements. Negligent caseworkers. Controlling foster parents. This was foster care for Kasie Getty. Born to a drug-addicted mother and adopted by parents who would later come to abuse her, Kaysie has come a long way since she first began her life-altering trip through foster care.
What the Foster? is produced by embrella, a New Jersey foster care non-profit. “For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org. To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org.
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