In my [biological] family there wasn’t a lot of time you’d spend with your brothers and sisters and you wouldn’t get an opportunity to do a lot of stuff. So being at Tom’s gave me…

I just had this kind of huge family existence … that’s what resonates for me the most. Just being completely acknowledged by people that don’t owe me one single thing but treat me like their…

You kind of learn a lot of new skills seeing people that you haven’t before. Like … more communications skills and things like that. And just being positive and being able to, you know, go…

Oh, it was really good. Yeah, they were so welcoming and stuff. It was like a really good boost of confidence to be able to stay with them. They just made you feel somehow that…

So, going there … they were genuine people. They weren’t doing it for the money or anything else. They just wanted to help out a random kid. Whereas in foster care, they made me feel…

It was just completely stimulating and I just loved going there and I got so excited and it was not even like a holiday house. It was just like, ‘Oh, I’m going to … my…

It was great, what I saw. I got to see what the dynamic [of a family] was – what they were like as parents. They were role models to me, and to how a family…