What Helped, What Hurt, and What Healing Looks Like - A Former Foster Youth's story
Includes a Live Web Event on 02/09/2026 at 11:00 AM (MST)
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This one-hour, conversation-style session centers the lived experience of foster youth and the voices that are too often missing from foster care training. In the first half of the session, foster care advocate Amber Chiapetto shares her personal story, including adoption, re-entry into foster care as a teenager, and the long road to healing, reflecting on what genuinely helped, what caused harm, and what she wishes caregivers and professionals better understood at the time.
The second half of the session is an open, moderated Q&A, creating space for honest questions, real dialogue, and deeper reflection. Participants are invited into a candid, podcast-style conversation that moves beyond theory and into practical insight rooted in lived experience.
This session is designed for foster parents, kinship caregivers, and professionals who want to listen, learn, and grow — and who are committed to creating safer, more healing homes where children in care feel seen, supported, and never alone.
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Amber Chiapetto
Foster Care Advocate
Amber Chiapetto is a foster care advocate, speaker, and creator who uses her lived experience to bring honesty, compassion, and accountability to conversations about foster care. After being returned to the foster care system as a teenager following a 12-year adoption, Amber began sharing her story online to give a voice to aged-out foster youth and push for meaningful foster care reform. What started as vulnerability turned into community — her platform has now reached over 800,000 followers.
Through raw storytelling and advocacy, Amber speaks openly about the realities of foster care, including hardship, neglect, and abuse, while also highlighting resilience and healing. Today, she is a two-time college graduate, a mother of three, a business owner, and a passionate partner to foster families who want to do better for the children in their care.
In partnership with Be The Source, Amber shares her story, answers difficult questions, and offers insight to help foster families create safer, more healing homes, so no child has to feel alone in the system.
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