May 2012 Featured Stories
Overcoming Abuse

The Hard Way
I didn't understand how being abused in foster care affected me until years after my own child was removed.

Being physically and sexually abused in foster care made me confused about what was right and wrong, healthy and unhealthy, safe and unsafe. Eventually, all those years of abuse led me to hurt children I loved, and to lose my own daughter for six months to the same system that had failed me.

Rise Issue #21 Spring 2012
The Long Shadow of Foster Care

For many families, the trauma of removal and foster care placement casts a shadow long after children come home. In this issue, parents describe the long-term impact of removal, and they ask: Is the child welfare system really doing its best to protect kids when foster care placement itself is so traumatic?