The system gets thousands of cases a day, but it doesn’t justify why youth only get looked at by their file, writes this YVR writer.

In this piece, a foster mother details the difficult journey of trying to reunite their foster child with their newborn sibling.

Not many children are lucky to experience the benefits I did as an immigrant child in the system, writes this YVR writer.

As a Black girl in the U.S., it's challenging being in foster care, as the color of my skin played a role, writes this YVR writer.

In NY, foster youth are subjected to the "raise the age" policy. Instead, we should be erasing the age, writes this YVR writer.

I had no one that was able to pick me up from the police precinct so they would put me in juvenile detention, writes this YVR writer.

An anonymous writer says that through therapy and time away from home, she's been able to reflect on her relationship with her mom.

After experiencing aggression from an early boyfriend, an anonymous writer says she has a better idea of what she wants from relationships.

As a former foster youth, I currently provide for myself and I struggle with bills. My mother passed away when I was 15 and my father passed away when I was 17.

By Anonymous I’m going to preface this with a personal intro to my background. I am 25 years old and I was in foster care for a brief stay before I turned 18 years old when my dad, who was the only one caring for me at the time, got very ill and was in a coma for almost a year.