Former Foster Child Creates Welcome Gift Boxes for New Children in Care | Community Foster Care

Casey, a former foster child and now independent young person, has come up with an initiative that aims to provide foster children and young people coming into care with a new foster family, a welcome gift box containing all the essentials and a little note from her.
Casey has been in the foster care system since she was a very young child. She has faced a lot of adversity, instability and challenge and she continues to deal with the effects of trauma. Before ageing out of care, Casey had been living with one of our foster families for five years. In her time with CFC, Casey has been actively engaged with our charity and continues to work with us in any way she can in order to help other young people going through similar experiences.
Casey bravely shares her painful memories of arriving at new foster homes with her small amount of possessions in a plastic bin bag. She tells of those feelings of being unwanted and not belonging anywhere and how if she can provide any small comfort to other children feeling the same, that's what she's going to do and that is what these welcome boxes are intended to do. To let those children and young people know that there are people out there who understand what they're going through, that there are people who care and that there are more positive times coming.
We are so proud of Casey for how far she has come and continues to go, how much self awareness she has and her selfless pursuit of helping others. We hope you enjoy this little snippet of her story.
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video by Hannah Reynolds