The Extra-Intense Life of a Gay Kid in Foster Care
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Diamond describes how growing up gay in the foster care system made his life extra-intense.
As a teenager, Diamond was faced with an important decision when he learned a family of two moms was interested in adopting him.
Since this recording, Diamond has closed Hope for Colorado.
Fact Check: Currently there are more than 400,000 kids in foster care in the United States. Every year, 23,000 kids age out without any family to call home.
Featured Guest
Diamond Kobylinski | Drag Queen Winner & Former Youth in Care
Diamond with his family.
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Kids Crossing
We’re so thankful for our community of supporters that makes Just As Special possible including our Season 2 sponsor Kids Crossing, a private foster care agency started by foster parents for foster parents.
Arguably the most important decision to make when becoming a foster parent is what agency you’ll choose. Because as a foster parent, you will rely on your foster care agency for support.
Kids Crossing provides many no-cost services including:
Therapy services for the kids
Family therapy
Family preservation services
Foster parent support groups
Parenting coaches
Trauma-informed parenting training
And much more!
Kids Crossing is also committed to diversity and inclusion and has partnered with Just As Special to provide their foster parents with virtual, on-demand training.
This training is focused on helping foster parents practically apply lessons learned from diverse perspectives of foster care through powerful personal interviews with former foster youth; multi-cultural foster families; same-sex foster families; foster care professionals; and much more.
Kids Crossing foster parent Ben said, “Just As Special gives me insight from different people in foster care such as other foster parents or former foster kids. These perspectives have opened up my mind to different ways of thinking, which in turn helped me better understand my foster kiddo.”
Kids Crossing has four locations across Colorado in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and La Junta.
Learn more at KidsCrossing.com and tell them Just As Special sent you.
Hope felt like she had way more help than she could use as a foster parent which led her to start thinking about how she could help other families who could benefit from even just one more friend.