My Motivation
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This is a Halibut Serving Bowl carved out of yellow cedar which is used to serve food to guests at Potlatches.  Halibut are a major food source for my Kwakwaka'wakw people.  This symbol represents factors that have driven me to engage with the MSW-Leadership program.  I wanted to bring the voices of foster alumni adults into child welfare research, policy and practice.

​I began this journey as someone who was naive and hopeful. I believed that lack of awareness around the plight of foster alumni adults, who are mainly indigenous, and the essential role that we can play in the renewal and re-development of  child welfare services could be remedied solely through greater dissemination of this information.  I had not considered the possibility that oppression and social stratification were contributing to maintenance of the status quo.

Pre-Program Foster Alumni Research Approach. speaks to the research that I conducted prior to applying to the MSW-L program.

My Application to the MSW - L Program describes my intention to bring foster alumni adult voices into child welfare research, policy and practice via my completion of the MSW-L program. 

Foster Alumni Foundation Strategic Plan is a group project completed as part of the MSW-L program. 

Foster Alumni Foundation Grant Application is a funding application based on the development of a foster alumni empowerment initiative.

Foster Alumni Foundation Practicum Project is my proposal to complete a practicum focused on promoting the empowerment of foster alumni adults.  

Foster Alumni Perspectives in Research, A Literature Review is a review of existing literature which speaks to foster alumni experiences.