{"id":244309,"date":"2021-05-06T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=244309"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:01:38","slug":"woman-foster-care-adopted-19-caseworker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-foster-care-adopted-19-caseworker\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTIFUL: Woman who grew up in foster care adopted at age 19 by caseworker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Nineteen-year-old Monyay Paskalides of Florida was placed into a group home in the foster care system at age 11. On Tuesday, she finally celebrated her adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Paskalides worked with Monyay over the years as her caseworker and mentor with the Safe Children Coalition. She expressed a desire to adopt Monyay, but was prevented from doing so because it was a conflict of interest with her job. 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She graduated early and volunteered to help other foster children facing similar situations. Leah was her support through it all. &#8220;It was important to me that she knew that she was wanted by somebody, that somebody loved her,&#8221; Leah said. &#8220;I could say that as many times as I want, but actions speak louder than words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-adopts-five-sibings-foster-care\/\">Father adopts five siblings from foster care: \u2018I\u2019m your dad forever\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Together, the mother-daughter team is raising awareness surrounding other teens who are waiting to be adopted. Monyay&#8217;s hope is to someday open a group home for teenagers so she can be there to support other teens going through what she did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never too late because I&#8217;m grown but I&#8217;m still being adopted,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Just because it didn&#8217;t happen then it doesn&#8217;t mean that it won&#8217;t happen. To me, this is closure. This is something I&#8217;ve always wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are more than <a href=\"https:\/\/americanspcc.org\/get-the-facts-foster-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">430,000<\/a> children and youth in foster care in the United States with over 100,000 of them available to be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-broken-loving-story-adopted-teenager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted<\/a>. About 20,000 teens age out of foster care each year, never finding a home. 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