Back to Our Roots: Northwest Ohio Community Town Hall

2445 Monroe Street,Toledo OH 43620

03 November, 2021

Description

Learn about the teenage foster youth in our communities and what you can do to continually advocate for their wellbeing and success. In 2020, the Children's Bureau agency estimated that more than 430,000 youth were in the foster care system nationwide. Ohio has 16,700 of those youth within our state borders, with 33% of that number being above the age of 13. There is a widespread stigma against teenagers in out-of-home placement such as foster care. How do we better educate our families, children, friends and community members to know of the resources and success that is available for these youth in care? At NYAP's Back to Our Roots Town Hall, we'll be exploring the lives of emancipated foster youth and the SUCCESS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS they had from strong, empowering foster parents. An open Q&A and panel discussion, this Town Hall event is a chance for the community to become stronger advocates for our foster youth, now more than ever before. National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP) is dedicated to advocating on behalf of the children and youth in the foster care system, as well as supporting and celebrating the foster parents who help them in their journey. We have served the communities of Ohio since 1978 with the consistent mission to become "an energetic instrument of compassion and change in the lives of children, youth, and families and the systems, structures and practices that affect them." Learn more about NYAP at www.nyap.org. Want to learn more about becoming a NYAP foster parent? Visit www.nyap.org/fostercare to learn how you can act now.