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• Disruptive adoption from the adoptee’s point of view

  Posted on Monday March 17th, 2008 at 14:11 in anxiety, child abuse, foster care children, sunshinegirl, support networks, trauma

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day Currently in the United States, adoptions are being promoted as the “cure” for foster care, and a panacea to all permanency issues. And yet, across America, there are...

• Mentoring young people in and from foster care in Australia

  Posted on Saturday January 26th, 2008 at 14:12 in child abuse, foster care children, sunshinegirl

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day I have recently had the privilege of getting to know Carissa Neal. In a sense, she and I are sisters, since we both have experienced being in foster care. Carissa is ori...

• Tapping into the vision and passion of foster care alumni

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 07:46 in child counselling, foster care children, sunshinegirl, trauma

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day It has been said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ With that in mind, my husband and I created this video to illustrate what can be accomplished by ...

• We are not victims; we are survivors

  Posted on Sunday December 23rd, 2007 at 18:41 in child abuse, foster care children, keeping kids safe, sunshinegirl, trauma

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day Care Leavers Australia Network is a support and advocacy group for adults who grew up in homes, orphanages, institutions and/or foster homes.  As a former foster child a...

• Children cannot consent

  Posted on Saturday December 15th, 2007 at 18:33 in child abuse, Child Safety, sunshinegirl

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day Megan wrote an earlier article about this subject, but I cannot get this atrocity off of my mind: Q: What kind of judge would say that a 10-year-old girl had “probably...

• Homeless youth… who they are… what they need…

  Posted on Thursday December 6th, 2007 at 22:02 in child protection, foster care children, sunshinegirl

  Homeless youth are more often defined by who they are not, rather than by who they are. They are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. They are not an adult single male. They are not a homele...

• The link between domestic violence and child abuse

  Posted on Sunday November 25th, 2007 at 15:24 in child abuse, Child Safety, sunshinegirl, trauma

  Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day In honor of White Ribbon Day, I am writing a post about domestic violence. It is a tragedy that some parents feel that they must stay with their partners, even if t...