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Writer: Camilla Egeberg I moved into a foster home when I was thirteen years old, just before starting secondary school. That summer, I was going to start living life in a completely different place with completely unfamiliar people. It was a strange experience, but the move itself went relatively painlessly as I remember it. I packed a lot of boxes with my things in the back of a small car and was driven a long way to my new home. It felt a bit like I was going on vacation, just like my mother had said to the neighbors when they saw all the boxes we put in the car. Vacation... I was to be placed voluntarily and temporarily, and as I understood it, I was to return home within a year. The word from CPS was that a lot of work would be done to sort out the situation so that I would eventually be able to move back home... but life is like that sometimes, one year turns into six.
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Writer: Camilla Egeberg In 2008 I turned 20 and had been a foster child with a family for 7 years - from the age of 13. The foster home stay had been very successful and my foster parents were asked by our child welfare service if they could say something about what they thought was behind the success. In 2015, almost eight years later, I got to read the document they had written at the time. As a former foster child and now a trained child welfare educator, I think my foster parents did a very good job, so I think this document has been given an undeserved place tucked away in a binder. Since this may be interesting reading for both foster parents, future foster parents, foster children and child welfare services, my foster parents and I want to share this with you in the hope that it can contribute to something positive.
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