About Emancipating from the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Recommendations of Ten Former Foster Kids by Waln Brown:
Aging out of foster care is a perilous event for foster youth. This is especially true for foster children whose experience in the foster care system included little or no preparation for leaving foster care and who emancipated directly from placement with little or no family support. Left to survive by their wits, this population of foster care kids would seem the most at-risk; yet, some former foster kids somehow manage to successfully navigate leaving foster care and go on to accomplish great things. The very personal setbacks, successes and life-lessons conveyed in these ten riveting and revealing foster care memoirs are the soul of this book.
Discover what these ten exemplary alumni role-models learned from writing their true stories about surviving foster care, their lives after foster care, transitioning from foster care and what is required to prepare emancipating foster youth for happy, healthy and successful adulthoods.
Their pre-placement memories may shock you.
Their in-placement experiences may alarm you.
Their post-placement accomplishments may inspire you.
Most of all, their insights and recommendations may enlighten you.
Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:
Buy the Book On Amazon.
Author Bio:
Waln Brown was born in York, Pennsylvania, a “surprise” child of ill-matched parents who did the “right thing” and got married. For the next 11 years, they fought constantly, creating an unhealthy environment that adversely affected Waln emotionally and behaviorally. Rejected by his father for “ruining his life,” and confused by his mother’s obsessive-compulsive disorder of washing him in her “crazy clean” solution of Lysol and ammonia, Waln began a pattern of acting out that led to placement in an orphanage, juvenile detention home, state psychiatric hospital and juvenile reform school. A terrible student who spent 8th grade in special education and failed the ninth grade, Waln earned an A.S. degree from York College of Pennsylvania, B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University (summa cum laude) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He held positions with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago. Waln is the CEO of the William Gladden Foundation and the author of over 300 books, articles and popular publications about youth and family issues.