Hi! Welcome to The Voice of the future—the eighth annual Newsletter created by Halifax youth in care, former youth in care, and youth on income assistance. What makes it different is we talk about being in government care and how it really is—not how it looks from the outside. Some of us have started living on our own, but we’re all youth who have lived in foster homes, group homes, with a relative, or in a supervised apartment.

We wrote the articles and created the illustrations for this Newsletter between the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2008. It's about us and our experiences being in care (pages 10 & 11, and Key Messages: p. 5) and it's about us as youth (Adults vs. Youth (p. 3), Racism (p. 12), Emotions
(p. 13), School (p. 15), and Music can change the world (p. 18).

But we don’t just sit down and write articles and do drawings for the Newsletter. The Newsletter is just one part of the program. Click here to find out more about it.

We’d like to thank the Department of Community Services, Halifax District Office—Child Welfare, our Agency sponsor, and we’d also like to thank our financial sponsors: Department of Community Services, Youth Employability Project, a Private Donor (Anonymous), Halifax Region Children's Aid Foundation, and the Halifax Youth Foundation. All of you are making it possible for us to have a Voice!