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Foster Care from Lived Experience and The Hope for Change
Thursday July 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Stars at Night Ballroom (B1)
Children entering foster care face trauma from where they have come, which then often continues within the foster care itself. Ways to address that trauma include adopting a strengths-based approach in choosing children's placements, advancing their education and life-long outcomes, and determining the safest and quickest return to their families or achieving permanency through adoption or guardianship. This session addresses necessary changes from larger systemic reforms to individual case planning that would better meet the needs of children and families.
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avatar for Andrew Bridge

Andrew Bridge

Author, Consultant
Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, he attended Wesleyan University, then graduated from Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. He began his legal career representing children... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Stars at Night Ballroom (B1)
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