What The Foster‪?‬ What The Foster?

12 foster care placements. Negligent caseworkers. Controlling foster parents. This was foster care for Kasie Getty. Born to a drug-addicted mother and adopted by parents who would later come to abuse her, Kaysie has come a long way since she first began her life-altering trip through foster care.

What the Foster? is produced by embrella, a New Jersey foster care non-profit.  “For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org. To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org.

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“What did I do to deserve this?” Kaysie wondered out loud.  Whether it was getting tackled by her foster parent or threatened with placement in a group home, Kaysie could not understand how her life had become so twisted.  This week on What the Foster?, follow Kaysie as she survives a system that seems intent on crushing her spirits. 



What the Foster? is produced by embrella, a New Jersey foster care non-profit.  “For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org. To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org.

Kaysie would not be adopted. Left to figure out her own future, she began a new chapter in Camden, New Jersey. This week on What the Foster?, witness the final part of Kaysie’s story as she finds the path that would eventually turn her from an average high school student to a successful, driven social worker and advocate for foster youth.

What the Foster? is produced by embrella, a New Jersey foster care non-profit.  “For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org. To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org.

 







 

Shakree’s mother died when he was five, leaving him to bounce from home to home for much of the next decade. Ananda’s mother’s troubles sent Ananda from New Hampshire to New Jersey to live with her stranger of a father. How do these adolescents respond to developmental years filled with turmoil and instability? Listen to find out.

 

Ananda is forced to reevaluate her idea of a “foster kid” when she becomes one. Shakree has to figure out where he, and his daughter, are headed in life.

In the last part of his foster care story, Shakree receives a book that inspires and shapes his life’s journey and he navigates state programs to help him pursue his dreams.  Meanwhile, Ananda also heads to college. She doesn’t share her past with her new friends out of fear that it will alter their perceptions of her.

 

For more information on foster care in New Jersey, visit www.embrella.org

To hear more true stories from foster care, visit www.futureisfamily.org