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How to Transform the Foster Care System
The speaker's journey from foster care to advocating for reform in the system. They experienced a traumatic adoption, homelessness, and abuse before re-entering foster care. Their anger at their own experiences led to a desire to improve the system. Their nonprofit focuses on kinship care, which aims to place children with extended family members instead of unknown foster parents. The speaker also shares a personal experience at a family reunion, realizing that any one of the families there could have been their own.