A foster care system where every child has a loving home | Sixto Cancel

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the US, youth in foster care are nearly twice as likely as war veterans to suffer from PTSD. Placed in foster care at just 11 months old, 2023 Audacious Project grantee Sixto Cancel experienced the faults of the system firsthand. Now, he's the founder of Think of Us, an organization working to reform child welfare by centering kinship care, or placing a child with an extended family member or a familiar adult. Learn more about his plan to help thousands of kids searching for a loving home with one simple, systemic switch. (This ambitious idea is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talk's Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:14.0	Sixth-O cancel grew up in foster care, a roller coaster journey you're about to hear.
0:19.3	In his talk from the Ted 2023 stage, he shares how his personal experience showed him a key
0:24.5	way to transform the broken foster care system in the US and how his audacious project
0:30.1	winning work, think of us.org, uses data to find solutions.
0:38.6	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:40.6	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:45.4	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:49.8	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:55.0	This season, we're exploring how parents often send their kids the wrong message about
0:59.3	achievement.
1:00.3	I do think it's a really bold thing to assume that your definition of success is the same
1:04.8	as your kids' definition of success.
1:07.5	Find and follow Rethinking with Adam Grant, wherever you're listening.
1:17.0	People ask me all the time.
1:19.1	What is the toughest part about growing up in the foster care system?
1:24.0	I was an 11-month old baby when I was placed in foster care.
1:28.2	By the time I was in the third grade and I was about nine, I was adopted.
1:32.7	I was giving a new forever family, but it was far from a loving home.
1:38.4	I was consistently referred to as the N word.
1:42.6	The refrigerator couldn't be touched.
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