Tag Archives: kinship

Placing Youth in Kinship and After Aging Out

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Pat O'Brien

Listen to this program put together by You Gotta Believe’s Long Island Staff, Pat Dudley and Danielle Skelly, interviewing two youth that found their unique paths to permanent parents and families through kinship and through having someone identified even after … Continue reading →

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Twice Adopted – The Keith Suber Story of Redemption and Forgiveness

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Pat O'Brien

Listen to this fascinating story of a man given up for adoption at birth and raised by his maternal grandmother, adopted by her at age nine through the NYC foster care kinship program, and then adopted by another family member … Continue reading →

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Brenda Shares Her Story

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Pat O'Brien

An excellent interview with 28 year old Brenda who had her seven younger siblings go into the foster care system. On her own by 18, with a child, Brenda shares her story about how tough it was to be a … Continue reading →

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