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The Mockingbird Society’s mission is to transform foster care and end youth homelessness. We create, support, and advocate for racially equitable, healthy environments that develop and empower young people at risk of—or who are experiencing—foster care or homelessness. Working in partnership with young people with lived experience, we change policies and perceptions standing between any child and a safe, supportive and stable home. We envision each young person, regardless of race or individual experience, reaching adulthood with an equitable opportunity to thrive.

The Mockingbird Society’s mission is to transform foster care and end youth homelessness. We create, support, and advocate for racially equitable, healthy environments that develop and empower young people at risk of—or who are experiencing—foster care or homelessness. Working in partnership with young people with lived experience, we change policies and perceptions standing between any child and a safe, supportive and stable home. We envision each young person, regardless of race or individual experience, reaching adulthood with an equitable opportunity to thrive.

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Our Voices

My Passport to Success

My first experience with college was in 2015 a few months after I graduated from Black Hills High School. College was difficult to traverse and...
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Notes From Annie

The Voices of Our Young People

The insight of lived experience coupled with the purity of youth perspective is hard to argue with. The tragic events in Parkland, FL have left an...
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Stories of Impact

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻ Āina i ka Pono

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻ Āina i ka Pono The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness All kids in Hawai’i grow up saying these words. It’s the...
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