Surviving Childhood Trauma and Succeeding in Life

Surviving Childhood Trauma and Succeeding in Life: Panel of Former Foster Youth

We talk with a panel of former foster youth about their stories and what helped them survive their childhood trauma and succeed in life.

What were the two most important things in helping you heal and ultimately thrive after your years in foster care and early life trauma?
Were there one or two people in your life who helped you overcome? What did they do to help?
Why do you think you became a survivor when others in similar positions did not?
If you are parents, how has your trauma from your early years impacted your parenting?
While you are successful and are “survivors,” do you still carry some of the baggage from your childhood?
What advice would you give foster, adoptive, and kinship parents to be most helpful to the children in their care?