This 18-minute video helps prospective foster and adoptive parents explore issues of safety, well-being and permanence for children in foster care through brief interviews.
One child, Teddy, demonstrates how children who are in foster care may be more vulnerable and how behavioral indicators of stress are not unusual for children in foster care. Also featured in the film are Teddy's older sisters, Angela and Michelle, who were placed separately from Teddy and did not know where he was. Their mother talks about the pain of having children placed in foster care, and how it was helpful to meet the foster parents.
Nichole and Desiree are sisters who were placed together, and they talk about the confusion of being placed in foster care. Their mother talks about her desire to have the girls back home with her.
Dan and Moses were separated when they were placed in foster care at a younger age. Now teenagers, they talk about their adoption. Dan was adopted first by Lynetta. After younger brother Moses experienced two failed adoptions he was also adopted by Lynetta, who helped them both maintain connections with their birth mother, grandmother and siblings.
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