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WHY FOSTER CAREabout think of usTeamCEOBoardfunderscareersNOMINATE A CHAMPIONcontact usNEWSThink of Us takes on strategic projects to Spark, Support, or CoDrive research and development designed to be catalytic, disrupting existing norms in the child welfare system so that lived experience is at the center.
We have exciting news to Share! Sonali Patel, has joined the leadership bench at Think Of Us as the new Vice President of Strategic Projects.
Research can be a site of harm and trauma for both participants and researchers. How can we be trauma-responsive in our research practices?
A breakdown of the proposed budget and what it means for you.
The Think of Us Lived Experience Network helped inform USA Today articles on failed adoptions.
The Problem of Institutionalizing Youth is Bigger than Foster Care
How Think of Us demonstrated a new approach to streamlining government support.
The continuing conversation around how to support foster youth through the pandemic.
We have a responsibility to listen to youth, hear their voices and help them make their voices heard.
Think of Us, Paris Hilton, and Breaking Code Silence hosted an event featuring leaders of different movements that share a common goal: ending unnecessary youth institutionalization.
When I first read the Away From Home report, I felt my current mission with North Carolina’s youth take on new dimensions; I felt my sense of urgency be redefined.
Aged Out Report - Across the country, far too many young people age out of foster care into appalling circumstances.
The goal for children who need therapeutic care should be to support them through timely permanency in foster care or kinship placements...
Think Of Us launches 'Away From Home Youth Experiences of Institutional Placements in Foster Care'
Think of Us operates as a Research and Development Lab for child welfare, transforming the system so that people with Lived Experience are at the center of designing, imagining, and building.
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