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A renowned psychologist, Bowlby (1998)1, states that losing a family member or someone close is one of the greatest losses anyone can endure. The loss of family through foster care is a traumatic experience as the child welfare system creates a “divorce” like loss of children's parents in addition to the loss of their siblings, relatives, home, and friends with no sense of closure (Silver et al., 1999, p. 148)2. This type of loss is often a repeated experience as children move from one foster home to another.
The Pacific Northwest Alumni of Foster Care is committed to speak for those in and from foster care to help create an awareness of their experiences and concerns to help facilitate innovative social changes that lead to the advancement of policy and practices and improve the quality of life for those in foster care. Your donations will help the PNAFC continue to speak and advocate for those too little to speak and for those too wounded to speak. The PNAFC has been given several opportunities to be a voice for others. To see what the PNAFC is doing for others please visit Our Works.
Please make a donation. Thank you for your generosity!
- Bowlby, J. (1998). Attachment and loss: Loss: Sadness and depression (vol 3).
London, England: Pimlico. - Silver, J., DiLorenzo, P., Zukoski, M., Ross, P. E., et al. (1999). Starting young:
Improving the health and developmental outcomes of infants and toddlers in the child welfare system. Child Welfare, 78(1), 148-165.
Pacific Northwest Alumni of Foster Care is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization so your donations are tax deductible.
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