As long as I can remember, I have been in DCF care. I remember every year my parents would switch off custody of me on a regular basis. My mother...
My childhood was filled with war and terror, from growing up in a war-torn country to fighting my own battle with accepting my identity as a Queer Black Muslim girl...
I am Marcus Bell; I am 27 years young and I was raised in the system. I came into care at the age of six months along with my two...
Sometimes life gives you a bad hand. With your cards already dealt, there’s nothing else to do but take a seat and play the game. At the age of 6...
I entered foster care at age 12. I was in an abusive home and would act out so that I could get in trouble and hopefully get recognized so that...
When I was 8, I would find myself in a peculiar but fateful point in my life when I would enter into the Arkansas Foster Care system through child endangerment...
Often the world we live in is something that no one would expect for it to be. When we are born we do not get a choice as to who...
I like to tell myself, that not everyone gets their traditional story. My parents weren’t fit to be parents or even to be part of the public eye at that...
Lacey Baker started skateboarding a few months after she started walking. She was two, briefly living in foster care in Southern California, and couldn't stop staring at the half-pipe set...
The Human Rights Campaign and researchers at the University of Connecticut are working together on a national online survey of LGBTQ young people. They want to hear your views about...