Book Store – Arise Los Angeles, Inc https://ariseforgirls.org Helping Girls Reach Their Potential Sat, 31 May 2025 22:09:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ariseforgirls.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Arise-LA-Inc-100x100.jpg Book Store – Arise Los Angeles, Inc https://ariseforgirls.org 32 32 The Story of Foster Care: Volume 2 https://ariseforgirls.org/product/the-story-of-foster-care/ https://ariseforgirls.org/product/the-story-of-foster-care/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:24:11 +0000 https://ariseforgirls.org/?post_type=product&p=3275 ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! Monique K. McClendon is a featured co-author in the powerful collaborative book, The Story of Foster Care, Vol. 2: The Intersection of Foster Care and Human Trafficking. This volume sheds light on the real-life experiences of survivors, advocates, and professionals working at the intersection of two often overlapping systems — foster care and commercial sexual exploitation. In her deeply personal chapter, Monique shares her journey from adversity to advocacy, illustrating how faith, community, and purpose shaped her calling to build healing-centered spaces for youth and women. Her contribution offers not only insight into the brokenness of the system but also a vision for what restoration can look like when love leads the way. “My story reflects not just what I’ve overcome, but what I’ve been called to build — spaces where survivors can heal, dream, and rise.”]]> In our first book, The Story of Foster Care vol. 1, we invited people into the intricate world of foster care as told by former foster youth, foster parents, and caseworkers. In this sequel book, we will be hearing from individuals who experienced both foster care and human trafficking, individuals who work at the organizations supporting their healthy exit from trafficking, and from child welfare professionals who saw the connections in their work.

By generous estimates, only 6% of children in the United States will ever enter into the formal foster care system.

However, according to government statistics, 50-80% of minors recovered from human trafficking have been involved with child welfare.

In a national survey of survivors, conducted by Polaris, it was found that 34% of survivors surveyed had been involved with child welfare at some point in their childhood, with an additional 22% of survivors reporting that they felt child welfare should have been involved.

In our efforts to simplify, we create a lot of misconceptions about the connection of the foster care system to the world human trafficking. The two realms are inextricably connected, but in ways often misunderstood.

A child may have experiences with human trafficking before they ever enter care. Their first experience may happen while under the care of the state. The connection may occur as they are transitioning out of care.

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