Forever Home Youth Council
The Forever Home Youth Council is a group of teens who have lived much of their lives in foster care. They have each had several different foster homes and some experienced failed adoptions. All of them are doing well now, but at some point have failed to thrive in foster care.
To become a member of the FHYC, members make a commitment to set a good example for other youth in foster care, get in touch with their own personal story and learn to tell it in a way that is appropriate for advocacy, and to care about and support each other on the “hero’s journey.”
Their goal is to inspire others to support youth in foster care and help keep families together so that fewer and fewer children enter foster care each year.
As a part of the Forever Home Youth Council’s leadership training, youth learn to speak in public and are challenged to support each other to raise their grade point average by two points or to a 3.5 GPA. The 2007 Charter Members of the Council were featured in the documentary film “Fostering Hope” which was aired on OPB in August 2008. They participated in retreats, raised funds through participation in the “Fun Run,” and most of them traveled to Mexico as a group for a cross-cultural experience.
As part of their outreach, several FHYC members perform in a dramatic, heart-touching skit, “Knock. Knock,” based on their personal stories.
click on the image to see the charter members