Interview With A Foster Kid
Interview With A Foster Kid
Podcast Description
She can tell you a lot better than me
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on various themes related to the foster care system, resilience, and advocacy. Specific topics include transitioning out of foster care, systemic reform, and personal narratives of overcoming adversity, with episodes featuring discussions on the resources available for aging-out youth and personal stories that challenge the status quo, such as Tristian Smith's memoir and insights from social service experts.
This is not a comfort podcast. Hosted by Amira Therese, foster care alumni, Interview With a Foster Kid – Declassified exposes the hidden truths of the foster system and rewrites the narrative society ignores. Every year, hundreds of thousands of foster children go missing or are silenced, their lives overlooked by bureaucracy and indifference. This podcast calls out systemic failure, confronts collective ignorance, and demands action.
Why listen? Ignoring the crisis isn’t neutral.
This podcast lifts the voices deliberately silenced, reveals what foster kids and alumni endure, and equips listeners to see, understand, and act. These are real stories, raw truths, and unflinching accountability. Be challenged. Be informed. Be moved to act.
Listen on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EJDfW0SJBz16bCmsEkWDM?si=d9c928a9cc234a3c
- Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/dc78e402-fb68-48fa-80f8-97bd4f74f984/interview-with-a-foster-kid-declassified
- Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/interview-with-a-foster-kid–6587831
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InterviewWithAFosterKid
- Substack: https://substack.com/@disorderlywanderlust
Get the companion book:
Disappointed: The Sacred Act of Reappointing Yourself free for a limited time on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/DISAPPOINTED-Sacred-Act-Reappointing-Yourself-ebook/dp/B0FJ87NHPC
This episode shares my story of being trafficked out of foster care by the very system meant to protect me.
It also tells how my CASA volunteer, who always managed to find me no matter how many placements or states I passed through, found me again when I was sitting in juvenile detention. Her intervention changed the entire trajectory of my life.
This story is raw, honest, and necessary.
Thousands of foster youth carry similar truths in silence. Speaking out is not only a reclaiming of power, it becomes a light for the next child lost in the system.
Support CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates): https://nationalcasagal.org/ Learn more about becoming a CASA volunteer or supporting their mission. Resources for Foster Youth Who
Experienced Abuse or Trafficking: Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline (24/7): https://childhelphotline.org/ National Human Trafficking Hotline (24/7): https://humantraffickinghotline.org/
Foster Youth and Foster Alumni Support Organizations: National Foster Youth Institute: https://nfyi.org/
Foster Care Alumni of America: https://fostercarealumni.org/
If you are a current or former foster youth who has been abused, silenced, overlooked, or harmed by the system, please remember this: You are not alone. You deserve safety, respect, and support. Reach out to your local CASA or foster youth nonprofits, especially those created and run by foster alumni. These organizations understand what you have lived through, and you will be heard and supported.
To share your story or help us create the change the children and families in the system today deserve, Reach Out: [email protected]
Listen on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EJDfW0SJBz16bCmsEkWDM?si=d9c928a9cc234a3c
- Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/dc78e402-fb68-48fa-80f8-97bd4f74f984/interview-with-a-foster-kid-declassified
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InterviewWithAFosterKid
- Substack: https://substack.com/@disorderlywanderlust
Get the companion book:
Disappointed: The Sacred Act of Reappointing Yourself free for a limited time on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/DISAPPOINTED-Sacred-Act-Reappointing-Yourself-ebook/dp/B0FJ8
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