Fostering a Better Future (with Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez and Lisa Guillette)

When young adults leave the foster care system they’re left
trying to find housing or employment on their own. Oftentimes,
the thing they yearn for the most is family. In this special
episode, Gloria chats with the president of the Annie E. Casey
Foundation’s Center for Systems Innovation, Sandra
Gasca-Gonzalez, and CEO at Foster Forward, Lisa Guillette. Our
guests discuss how they’re helping youth aging out of foster care
age into an ecosystem of belonging. Whether it’s legally creating
‘soul’ families or providing affordable homes, they tell us the
ways they’re working with former foster kids to break the cycle
and achieve stability. 


 


This episode was made possible with support from the Annie E.
Casey Foundation, an organization devoted to building brighter
futures for all children, youth and young adults, and ensuring
they have the family, community and opportunity they need to
thrive. Learn more at www.aecf.org. Views expressed in this
episode are solely those of the participants.


 


No One is Coming to Save Us is presented by Neighborhood
Villages. Neighborhood Villages is a Massachusetts-based systems
change non-profit. It envisions a transformed, equitable early
childhood education system that lifts up educators and sets every
child and family up to thrive. In pursuit of this vision,
Neighborhood Villages designs, evaluates, and scales innovative
solutions to the biggest challenges faced by early childhood
education providers and the children and families who rely on
them, and drives policy reform through advocacy, education, and
research.


 


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