foster care

There are reportedly over 5,800 children in care. New figures show that nearly half of the children and young people who died in State care within the last 10 years died of suicide or drug overdoses. According to the Irish Times, 42 children and young people died in the care system between 2010 and 2019, […]

5 years ago

Kerry was in foster care at the time.

9 years ago

We have all heard stories about the Irish care system – good and bad – and the outlook for those in and coming through foster care is often tinged with pessimism and hopelessness. Mental health issues, addiction, abuse, crime. Aside from the trauma of a child being taken from their natural family home, there are […]

10 years ago

Shane Griffin spent his childhood moving around at least 19 residential units foster care. He went from home to home and experienced sexual abuse along the way. He was so desperate for help – he wrote this moving letter to a judge in his case. Now he has grown up, he tells the Irish Times […]

10 years ago

They are the sickest of the sick, caught up in the LA foster care system. All of the children Mohamed Bzeek take in will die. He has buried 10 children – many of them died in his arms. This devout Libyan-born Muslim says he just wants them to know they are not alone in this life. There […]

10 years ago

Foster mum and mental health blogger Rachel Hillestad, recently posted a picture of a Cookie Monster toothbrush to her Facebook page in a moving tribute to her eight-year-old foster child. A writer who blogs on everything from her emergency hysterectomy at 32, Sensory Processing Disorder, twin loss, depression, anxiety, OCD to raising foster kids and letting them move on, Rachel […]

10 years ago