And what message does that send to a child about their worth?

We all must understand that foster care was built to take care of children.

We all must also understand, and Nelson Mandela said it so clearly, each and every one of us in society are judged by the way we treat our children.

Kids in foster care, they don't belong to you or your viewers.

They don't belong to me.

They belong to us, to us.

And so kids who enter the system, one child every two minutes, as I said, they enter the majority of them in the back of a police car.

Yeah.

That's right.

The thing is, is that they exit foster care at one age, and that's when we age out.

So for me, I wanted to do things.

So one, I wanted to open up the pathway for our young people for education.

And by the way, education does not mean you walk into a university.

Education means that you make tomorrow stronger than it is today for your path of success.

And for me, I wanted to help our young people do that.

It takes a village.

This

is a lot.

I'm real busy.

And they said, but we have two little boys.

We have a little boy who's two and his brother who is six months.

They have been put in the system for the second time.

They're being fast-tracked for adoption.

It's not just my story anymore.

Yeah, just, okay, so the archetype, I got

it.

Dirty kid who became dirtier.

And especially because I didn't have places to brush my teeth.

I didn't have places to shower.

My clothes were dirt.

So it was all of those factors.

Yeah.

And like, I think people kind of routinely underestimate what a difference that can can make.

One act of kindness that can truly change.

I'm going to tell you a story, Andrea, that it's not in my book.

And I don't know if you've been able to to find it in all the social media.

But in 2019, my life was amazing.

I have four incredible kids at that time.

I have an amazing husband who for 21 years, I have basked in the love of my husband.

And so I think like just I just have this really strong belief that if we just start treating children like human beings more, that that that's like a step in the right direction.

Then I

want every kid to get an activity because I know that 90% of kids who enter foster care enter in the back of a police cruiser.

They go to a holding center.

You can call them rainbow rooms or whatever you want.

They're no more than holding centers.

I want them to have their own.

And so we give kids under the age of 10, a coloring book and crayons and kids over the age of 10, a journal and a pen and pencil set.

Can people go to your website to see those events?