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Meet Former Foster Youth, Lakysha Laing
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Nov 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Lakysha Laing is a TFFC board member, former foster youth, and incredible human! During her session Lakysha will share:
• Her story with foster care and adoption (please note this includes some sensitive subject matter including child abuse)
• Lakysha’s desire to have a peer mentor as a foster youth
• The complicated feelings around being adopted - the joy and the pain
• 1 important (and easy!) thing foster parents can do to build a bond with their foster child
• What, in her opinion, makes a great foster parent
For more information, please visit: https://tidewaterffc.org/fcanextsteps/
Presented by Tidewater Friends of Foster Care
In partnership with The Barry Robinson Center
Hosted by Audra Bullock and Erin Lindstrom
• Her story with foster care and adoption (please note this includes some sensitive subject matter including child abuse)
• Lakysha’s desire to have a peer mentor as a foster youth
• The complicated feelings around being adopted - the joy and the pain
• 1 important (and easy!) thing foster parents can do to build a bond with their foster child
• What, in her opinion, makes a great foster parent
For more information, please visit: https://tidewaterffc.org/fcanextsteps/
Presented by Tidewater Friends of Foster Care
In partnership with The Barry Robinson Center
Hosted by Audra Bullock and Erin Lindstrom
Released:
Nov 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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