Overcoming the Haitian Earthquake & Successfully Navigating the US Foster Care and Education Systems!

Welcome back to Season 6 of Fostering Change! We hope you enjoyed our first episode of the season with Andrew Bridge. This is a reminder that if you order his book before its publication date, a portion of the sale will go to CASA chapters nationwide. Please visit AndrewBridgeAuthor.com and select the CASA chapter of your choice. In today’s episode, we have two exceptional guests - one is making her second appearance on our show. Donna Biase co-founded BEST FOOT FORWARD Foundation, a Florida-based organization whose mission is to empower foster care and at-risk youth to become self-sufficient adults and positive contributing members of society through academic achievement. Having survived the deadly and horrific earthquake that ravaged his home country of Haiti, Elie Merisier was in the foster care system in High School when Best Foot Forward reached out to him to provide assistance with his academic studies. We’ll let you listen to the show for more details, but you should know that despite attending five different high schools, Elie graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in accounting. Today, he is a licensed real estate agent. We hope you enjoy today’s episode of Fostering Change as much as we think you will. Of course, if you have any questions or comments about our interview with Elie and Donna or have a guest suggestion, please email us at info@comfortcases.org. More about Donna and Elie: To learn more about Elie, please follow him on social media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092082848694 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/elie_merisier/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/eliemerisier/ To learn more about Best Foot Forward: Facebook facebook.com/bestfootkids Instagram instagram.com/bestfootkids Twitter/X twitter.com/bestfootkids Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.