We are just about to enter a new chapter for Y.E.S. with a contract with Child Welfare that will enable us to provide a transitional option for youth newly entering foster care. Some of our staff have been foster parents at one time or another and so have a special place in our hearts for those young people who have been forcefully removed from their homes and brought into places unknown and expected to live with people they don’t know. We will try to make the shelter a soft place to land for a while until good options can be worked out for longer term.
The unknowns can be frightening for a youth, so when a new foster youth arrives we hope to quickly provide a warm welcome with a household of others in similar transitions. We want to offer conversations that allow them to express their anxieties, worries, expectations, and hopes. We want to them to see what Y.E.S. can offer them that will encourage them and allow them to hear from others in similar circumstances.
Actually this welcome isn’t true just for foster youth, but for anyone when they come to stay at Y.E.S.. We want everyone to feel wanted, valued, safe and eventually, hopeful.
It’s what we’re about. :o)
The unknowns can be frightening for a youth, so when a new foster youth arrives we hope to quickly provide a warm welcome with a household of others in similar transitions. We want to offer conversations that allow them to express their anxieties, worries, expectations, and hopes. We want to them to see what Y.E.S. can offer them that will encourage them and allow them to hear from others in similar circumstances.
Actually this welcome isn’t true just for foster youth, but for anyone when they come to stay at Y.E.S.. We want everyone to feel wanted, valued, safe and eventually, hopeful.
It’s what we’re about. :o)
