The seed for Saved by a Story, a nonprofit that hosts free community writing workshops, was planted while Kathy Katims was reading an article about foster youth. One of the distinct pains that people in the foster care system experienced was the absence of somebody to hold their story: riding a tricycle at the age of two, making a friend at five and playing baseball at 11.
In graduate school, when Katims was asked to create a project connecting her field of study, writing, with social justice, she knew exactly where to start.
“I had an idea that if I gathered a group of foster youth and offered a prompt writing workshop, people could hold their narrative for themselves and also share it,” said Katims. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 