Youth Homelessness Initiative Youth Advisory Circle
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Vancouver Foundation's Youth Advisory Circle
conceives a new ending to an "age out" tale
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You may have seen the picture or read the story:
homeless youth from foster care, huddled in a needle-strewn alley,
dirty and helpless. Youth in foster care have seen it – often. And
it's this damaging "foster-care porn" that they want off the table.
Stories and images have the power to either reinforce or break
down stereotypes, which can shape how groups of people are per-
ceived and stigmatized. Members of Vancouver Foundation's Youth
Homelessness Initiative Youth Advisory Circle (YAC) are trying to
take charge of the stories to help their lives and concerns be better
understood by the general public.
