![Trauma, foster care, homeless children, Storyboard Project, Mental Health, mental illness, documentary, Mira Zimet, youth, healing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/842EB754-88C8-48E7-9132-D24EC4973CCE-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Mira Zimet is a visual storyteller and an award-winning documentary film maker. She founded the Storyboard Project, an award-winning documentary web-series about foster youth who…
![Inspired to Heal](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/05/Lemn-Sissay-Face-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Renowned British poet Lemn Sissay suffered terrible abuse in foster care. He was subjected to violence, emotional cruelty, racism, and severe maltreatment in a system…
![Film Review & Interview, Short Term 12 Writer/Director D. D. Cretton](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/01/short-term-12-brie-larson-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Grace (Brie Larson) is the head supervisor of Short Term 12, a group home for displaced and troubled teens. “You are not their parent, you…
![Interview with a Foster Parent](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/01/girl-on-swing-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Statistics show that for every 1,000 children in Canada, 9.2 are in foster care, and in the U.S. the ratio is 6.9 per 1,000 children. The…