I spent my entire teenage years in the foster care system in the United States of America. I was failing in school, fighting, being bounced around and I wanted to die. I had a team of people assigned to help me, yet I was still depressed, suicidal and felt invisible to them all. I felt like a voiceless number.  But once I decided that I mattered and that I would have to rescue myself, I began to play my hand to win by using my voice. I went on to not only successfully exit the  foster system, became a foster parent, became a Children's Social Worker, graduate from USC with my MSW, but I also built a business speaking and training the system I came from so that more kids can have the opportunity to succeed. 

 Building Resilience Through a Trauma Informed Lens  

IMPROVING THE OUTCOMES OF FOSTER YOUTH

The reason WHY I do this is because every day I am haunted by my childhood trauma. To know that as a result of social workers and teachers working with me, a youth's life will be heavily impacted and changed, is healing. 

That "light bulb" moment where the connections are made, I know that there will be less "invisible" kids and social workers and teachers will find more value in the work they do.