Product Overview
"Let a child or teen leave a footprint on your heart and adopt."
- Cassidy, a youth previously in foster care
About the designer: "My name is Cassidy. I am 16 years old, I was adopted very young. I am in the National Honor Society and a peer mentor to freshmen. I like to volunteer to be a buddy for kids in foster care at the MARE adoption events. Adoption was the best thing that ever happened to my sister and I. This project means a lot to me. In the picture, I included a heart made out of footprints of many colors to represent all children and teens of different skin tones. I also had the footprints in different colors because it does not matter that you and your child have different skin tones. What matters is that you give them a second chance and love them."
Fostering Creativity is a public awareness campaign that seeks to empower those who have experienced foster care to share their perspective with the world. It is the voices of those who have actually experienced foster care and adoption that are the most important. Fostering Creativity aims to empower these youth to raise awareness about foster care through the power of art.
Right now, there are more than 8,000 youth in Massachusetts foster care and hundreds of them have no permanent family. Their voices are often unheard. We want to change that. We hope you will join us #SpeakUpforAdoption by supporting the creativity and unique voices of these kids.
T-shirts are a dime a dozen, but this one stands out from the pack. It’s super soft, breathable, and has just the right amount of stretch. Need we say more?
• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (Heather colors contain polyester)
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz/yd² (142 g/m²)
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Blank product sourced from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, or the US
