About 152 youth in the permanent care of the province are over the age of 15 and this group is at great risk of “aging out” of the system without finding a family.
The New Brunswick Adoption Foundation’s annual fundraiser “Everybody’s Children” on Monday heard a heartbreaking story about a girl who was forced to leave her biological family.
Cassaundra Eisner is now 17 and spoke about growing up in a family of addiction and abuse before being placed in foster care.
“From a very early age, I can remember screaming matches that lasted for hours and hours, sometimes early in the morning and sometimes late into the night. But the worst matches were the ones during the day that involved someone being drunk or high,” she noted.
Eisner was eventually placed in a foster home at the age of 9 and several relief homes before finally placed in a permanent home and adopted at age 11.
She noted how happy she was to have two parents and three brothers and didn’t have to worry about moving anymore.
