09/26/2026
October is Foster Youth Voice Awareness Month. And we’re starting it by listening. 💙
At Elevating Connections, we believe that every story matters. But believing that means more than simply giving young people a chance to speak. It means creating spaces where they know their voices are valued, their experiences matter, and what they have to say can help shape the decisions, systems, and communities that impact their lives.
Young people with lived experience in foster care have so much to teach us. Our job as adults is not to speak for them. It is to listen, to support them in finding and using their own voices, and to make sure those voices are heard.
That’s why we’re proud to join our community partners in kicking off Foster Youth Voice Awareness Month with the Foster Youth Voice Celebration on October 2.
This is a celebration of lived experience, resilience, creativity, strength, and the power of young people to tell their own stories.
We hope you’ll join us as we begin a month dedicated to something that should matter every month of the year:
Listen to young people. Believe them. Include them. Amplify their voices. And remind them that their stories matter.
💙 Every Story Matters.
