by Selfless Love Foundation | Oct 4, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog Supportive Adults are Suicide Prevention ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ Lexi B. St. Paul, Minnesota Fosters: youth who have entered the foster care system or out-of-placement care before the age of 18. Going into the foster care system at...
by Selfless Love Foundation | Oct 3, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog The Importance of Supportive Adults and Permanent Connections ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ Carlos J. Charlotte, NC Supportive adults play a critical role in the development and well-being of young people by offering guidance,...
by Selfless Love Foundation | Sep 26, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog Finding My Guardian Angel ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ Tee M. New York Why? Why me? Why now? These were the questions that echoed in my mind, day in and day out, as I faced the harsh realities of life. As a teenager who had left the...
by Selfless Love Foundation | May 17, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog The Dignity of Risk ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ “Being in foster care felt like being incarcerated,” shared a young person with lived experience. Incarceration, the act of confining a person, is used for retribution, incapacitation,...
by Selfless Love Foundation | Apr 19, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog Foster Care Is Not a Benign Intervention ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ Imagine if a stranger took you away from the only home you had ever known. Your family, friends, everything that was familiar – gone. Imagine the confusion, sadness,...
by Selfless Love Foundation | Mar 15, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog, Independent Living
SLF Blog Negative Statistics Don’t Tell the whole Story ← Blog Home Date: | by Selfless Love Foundation ⟡ The National Youth in Transition Database reports that 26% of youth transitioning out of foster care experience homelessness by age 21. Are they experiencing...
