Radio personality Poet Taylor talks foster care advocacy | The Good Word

Radio personality and foster care advocate Poet Taylor joins us on The Good Word! Poet is a popular radio personality in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. She also is a vocal foster care advocate, speaking from personal experience as a foster child in the DC foster care system.

In an emotional interview, Poet gets candid about the challenges foster children face, sharing her own personal journey in the foster care system. She also shares the victories and success stories often ignored.

This powerful conversation is taking place in May, National Foster Care Awareness month. A reported 360,000 children are in foster care in the United States and the National Council for Adoption says each year approximately 18,500 to 20,000 youth "age out" emancipate of the system without a permanent legal family.

Poet highlights her success story including being adopted at 15 years old by her foster family, the Taylors, who she credits for her success.