All a kid needs is one person to hang on to, to listen, to care, to show up consistently. (Dr. Maureen Brennan, psychiatrist of residential treatment facility)
Imagine … abandonment, sexual abuse, lies, secrets, guilt, shame, drugs, distrust, nightmares.
Imagine … Help! Hope! Healing!
In America, there are more than half a million kids in foster care. Once they reach 18 and age out of the system, only two out of ten will make it. Others will end up homeless, in prison or dead.
We can do better. We must. These kids don’t belong to someone else. These kids belong to all of us. They are America’s children. THEY ARE AMERICA.
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