In this course we will talk with two former foster youth about their experience in foster and kinship care and what they want foster, adoptive, and kinship parents to know. Our discussion will be with Lanitta Berry and Mayia Warren. Lanitta was a pregnant and parenting teen growing up in the North Carolina foster care system. In May of 2022, she joined the 2% population of former foster youth that graduate from post-secondary education with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance. Mayia Warren was in foster care and later adopted by her grandmother. She has multiple invisible disabilities, albinism, and is visually impaired. In the spring of 2021, Mayia graduated with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology. She is an advocate in multiple fields such as: disability, foster care, children and families, and wellness. She is also an independent recording artist, poet, author and philanthropist.
This course covers the following learning objectives:
- Understand the value of a caring adult in a foster care youth's life.
- List 2 long-term impacts of sexual abuse.
- List 2 things foster parents can do to help break the cycle of abuse and trauma.
Outline for Stories of Healing.pdf
*This course includes a 1-hour conversational audio lesson, a 10-question quiz, and a certificate of completion with the successful completion of the quiz at 80%.
Your course will remain active for 180 days from purchase date.
