Tag: museum

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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

• Chosen: Foster Youth and Their Chosen Families

  What supports young people to grow in resilience, success, good health and happiness? Love, connection and belonging. For foster youth this is even more profoundly true, even though fighting for food, clothing and shelter takes up so much energy. Join Foster Youth Museum and our latest exhibition Chosen: Foster Youth and Their Chosen Families and…

  February 14, 2020

• Join Us – Fostering Resilience at SCMAH

  Join California Youth Connection and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) to discuss how foster youth not only survive, but thrive, contribute and make a difference. This event includes panel discussions from current, former, and older generations of foster youth, and youth-led performances.  Fostering Resilience: What it Took, What it Takes, and…

  November 2, 2017

• Join us – First Friday: Lost Childhoods Exhibition Opening – July 7, 2017

  Come one! Come ALL!!  Come Join us for opening Night of the Lost Childhoods Exhibition for FREE during First Friday on July 7, 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. CLICK HERE to learn more! Questions?  Contact Darryn Green at Darryn@calyouthconn.org

  July 6, 2017

• A Sacred Moment for Foster Youth

  By Rebecca Edwards, co-director BRAID Mission Braid was founded in the fall of 2014 as a brand-new ministry of the Episcopal Church, with a unique mission – reaching out to youth in foster care. As we have confessed many times over the past year, however, Chris and I really had no idea what we were…

  September 30, 2015

• Fostering Truth: Exposing Lies and Exploring Resilience

  Fostering Truth: Exposing Lies and Exploring Strength Today we began installing Lost Childhoods at Warehouse 416 in Oakland. I’ve been part of Foster Youth Museum from the beginning – from the first moment the idea was born – so I found myself surprised that seeing items we started collecting in 2007 were choking me up like it…

  March 4, 2015