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THE FORGOTTEN ONES BY SHARLENE PROVILUS
There are 400,000 kids in foster care and most of them are forgotten.
A few years ago, I participated in a panel discussion with a group of students who were currently in foster care and or recently adopted. It was their annual Youth Empowerment Conference. However, this was my first year participating in this experience. I, along with two other women, was selected as panel participants. Each of us had experience with the foster care system. One young lady is now a professor at a well-known university but lived in over 15 homes before she was an adult. The other panelist was a 20-year-old student who was recently adopted. Then there was me.