Christina Bauer, Social Media Manager at America’s Kids Belong, draws from the pain of her tragic experiences in foster care, to help America’s Kids Belong empower and equip many good and loving foster parents to provide safe homes of hope and healing.
Christina Bauer’s Story: When Foster Care Isn’t a Safe Place of Healing
Christina Bauer, Social Media Manager at America’s Kids Belong, shares with raw honesty and vulnerability about her time growing up in foster care. Far from being a place of healing and hope, for her and her brother, it was a place of even more tragedy as she endured suffering and abuse. Christina shares some important insights on the things she and her brother needed most at such a critical time and failed to receive. Powerful lessons for understanding better the role trauma and the uncertainty of the future plays in kids who are exhibiting difficult behaviors in foster care. She shares her thoughts on what current and prospective foster parents should know and keep in mind as they work with the precious kids in their care.