From 3 to 5: Our Road to Fostering

From 3 to 5: Our Road to Fostering

Date

3-17-2018

Author Bio(s)

Aline Silva is a Business Development Specialist and handles Special Events/ Communications/ Marketing for the College of Engineering and Computing at NSU. Born and raised in Brazil, she came to the USA at the age of 17 and studied Management and International Business as undergraduate, followed by a MBA in Marketing. Silva is passionate about forging new relationships (domestically and internationally), content marketing, data analysis and research, learning different cultures, traveling, coaching, learning new management techniques, writing short essays, blogging, social media, gastronomy and a triathlete in training. She first became aware of the need for foster parents in Florida after connecting with a former coworker on Facebook that she had not been in touch with for at least 15 years! The more she looked into it, the more she was convinced she needed to do something about it.

Talk Description

Aline Silva had a tough year, but was able to turn around that difficult year into hope and gratitude by learning more about the need for foster homes in the state of Florida. It is estimated that there are about 14,000 children in the foster care system in Florida. Silva and her family struggled with a year filled with multiple miscarriages, but instead of focusing on the negatives, they took a different approach and focused on all the little things that make life great. In this process, they learned that by focusing on the needs of others versus their own, especially those within the foster care system, they would experience gratitude for what they had, compassion for those that suffer, coupled with a newfound courage to actually do something about it.

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From 3 to 5: Our Road to Fostering

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