Foster Care Challenges and Patty Flores’ Impact

Many kids and teens in foster care face homelessness, emotional struggles, and lack of support—even after returning to their families. Yet, advocates like educator, consultant, and therapist Patty Flores are driving change. Through mentoring, therapy, advocacy, and policy reform, she works to ensure foster youth are not only supported but truly believed.

A recent Instagram conversation between Patty and a former foster youth highlights the deep struggles: frequent moves, trauma, and the pain of not being believed by adults. These stories reveal how broken systems often retraumatize children instead of protecting them.

Patty, through Defying Labels, addresses these issues by:

Training foster families to provide trauma-informed care

Offering mentorship and career support

Creating safe spaces for survivors to share their voices

Pushing for policy change to prioritize mental health, stability, and long-term support

Her message is clear: foster youth deserve stability, love, and to be heard. With dedicated advocates like Patty Flores, there’s real hope for a better foster care system. link text »