Care Grown Collective exists to build a community of care among people who have experienced the child welfare system—whether recently or decades ago, whether in foster care, group homes, or institutional placements. We aim to bridge the isolation caused by aging out of care by connecting adults with lived experience to youth currently transitioning out, offering mentorship, support, and solidarity rooted in trust and mutual respect.
Our work is guided by values of inclusivity, trauma-informed practice, anti-colonial resistance, feminism, and socialism. We create peer-led spaces for healing, joy, and imagination—ranging from D&D campaigns for youth in care, to support groups for adults who have aged out, to long-term visions of care-based infrastructure that no system has ever provided.
This collective is more than a response to systemic failure. It is a reclamation of care—by and for those who have lived through its absence. Born out of personal experience and shaped by academic inquiry, Care Grown Collective seeks to make the invisible visible, and to grow something better together.
Care Grown Collective 