Navigating Identity: Insights from Lived Experts in Adoption, Foster, and Kinship Care November 21, 2024

Join Families Rising board members as they share their lived expertise as adoptees or individuals who spent time in foster or kinship care. The panel will explore ideas and strategies that caregivers and professionals can use to better support youth as they navigate developing all aspects of their identities including their cultural and racial identities. Panelists—Dr. JaeRan Kim, Jarel Skinner-Melendez, Nathan Ross, and David Simmons—will share personal insights into the strategies that were helpful for them, as well as those they wish had been used during their own journeys. This session is essential for anyone dedicated to understanding and supporting the complex identity development of youth who are adopted or in foster or kinship care.