TRIGGER WARNING - MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH, ABUSE, ASSAULT, FOSTER CARE

Summary - This podcast was a well overdue conversation. Erica has been a friend of mine since my first week at university. She speaks openly about her journey into foster care and how she managed university as a young person from foster care.

We briefly speak about the homelessness and suicide statistics (of young people in foster care) -

1. In the first four years after aging out of foster care, approximately 20% of former foster youth will experience homelessness. LINK
2. Nationally, approximately 29% of youth without housing  ...