Category: Transition Age Youth

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  YeshiCan!

  by Jamie Lee Evans and Yeshi Vaughan Yeshi running at a high school track meet. Foster Youth Museum’s Lost Childhood’s exhibition will be up at Santa Clara University for public viewing April 30 – May 12, 2023. Since the Covid-19 global pandemic hit the world in 2020, we have been waiting patiently for the opportunity…

  April 25, 2023

• What Being Chosen Means During a Global Pandemic

  by Foster Youth Museum director, Jamie Lee Evans I have interesting dreams.  Last night I dreamt there was a COVID-19 campaign for people to make friends instead of buying all the toilet paper they can find.  Then I woke up wondering how homeless people are supposed to shelter-in-place when they have no shelter to begin…

  March 12, 2020

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  See Me: Portraits of Foster Youth Documenting the Higher Ed Grind

  by Foster Youth Museum Executive Director, Jamie Lee Evans Unless you come from a long line of college graduates and have lots of support to swim through high school and apply for college, post secondary educational adventures aren’t easy.  Foster youth, in particular, have to grind hard to get into and finish college. The stats…

  January 21, 2019