Youth Voices Rising

Young men and women enter adulthood carrying confusion and pain, often mistaking control for love, writes Timothy Evans.

Trauma can cause you to think differently and react to things differently — and a lot of people misunderstand this, writes Aleesha German.

In the first piece in The Long Way Home series, Ángela Banks explores the obstacles that aging out stacks on for foster youth.

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.

She didn’t adopt me because she wanted me. She adopted me because it made her look good, writes Lexie Lee.

When siblings are kept together, children in care have better health outcomes. Yet, those connections are the exception, writes Erica Hickey.

My “Voldemort” is just as dangerous: the broken foster care system and the injustices faced by people with disabilities, writes Izzy Wagner.

Parenting is hard for everyone, but parenting while autistic, Black, & under CPS involvement comes with an extra weight, writes Alexis Kramer.

I'm still begging for this system to help me to this day, even if it's the same system that failed me in the first place, writes Brenna Huna.