A Place Called Home: A Memoir

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But as a teacher, we just get the logistics and then are expected to teach as usual with "empathy for the difficult situation". After temporary housing in a juvenile detention facility and group homes, he was sent to a family that abused and exploited him. A heartbreaking, gritty, and inspiring personal testament to the burden that is placed on a child in poverty. This is not a dry preachy book - this is a gritty memoir of a survivor of homelessness and the foster care system that allows the resilience and beauty of his spirit to shine - and forces the critical issue of child welfare into the light. Caught in a cycle of “homelessness, hunger, housing, welfare, and homelessness again,” Ambroz tried to mitigate his mother’s volatility by insulating her from triggers that would set her off.

He is a foster dad, a member of the Television Academy, a Board Member of Equality California, and now lives in Los Angeles.Sometimes we are given none, and then when massive issues arise we are left wondering how we could have helped more. With flaps on every page allowing kids the chance to open doors, peep through windows and uncover what makes each distinct culture tick, this book encourages kids to be curious about our diverse world. I am very disappointed to hear that she stopped writing novels, because I think even a crappy book written by her is worth reading. Beginning in high school, as a member of the National Foster Youth Advisory Council, he has worked for meaningful reform, and with this potent memoir, he urges readers to “become one of the changemakers. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

We are suffering disproportionately from families who can’t accept us, or we feel unaccepted, and we seek safety and community.

A faith based romance based on family, community, faith with a bit of danger and mystery it is well worth the read. Foster care certainly had its challenges for Ambroz and his siblings, but they had shelter, access to food, and some stability – and perhaps most important to the author, they began going to school on a regular basis. Though I do not want to have children of my own, someday when I am ok with feeling more settled, I hope to be a good, stable foster parent. The references to faith and Christianity were a bit more prevalent in this novel than I have come across in other books in this genre.