Video!

Please check out the video I made! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQY3BIZAe7c

Making History

As the Making History project comes to a close, I am very happy with my project and all that I have learned about foster care this year. I learned so many important details about foster care, and how being in a foster home as a child greatly effects their mental health in the future. I was also astounded by the percentage of children that stay in foster care and foster homes for more than 6 months. I am very happy with my blog and all the posts and information I have shared here. I hope my blog was informative and helped spread the word about foster care and foster children. The keepsakes I have created turned about really nicely, and I am very happy with them. Although there was no place to volunteer around my area, I am thrilled that I still am able to make a foster child smile with the knit keepsakes I have created. Overall, I think the Making History project went very well, and I was able to learn a lot and help a cause that I am very passionate about. Here are some pictures of the final project.

I have recently learned some important facts about foster care. People who leave the foster care system after they turn 18, are suffering from mental, physical and emotional trauma. They suffer from substance abuse and criminal behavior (Barth 1990), along with multiple other things. Not all foster homes and foster children suffer from this, but many do. This is extremely unacceptable, and if we want a positive future for children in the next few decades, we need to stop this. Also, the majority of foster children spend 60 or more months in the foster care system. I hope, one day, there will be no foster care system, and children will be able to live in happy and healthy communities all over the world.