Special CASA Event

Tashia Roberson-Wing recently received a Master’s of Social Work and Master’s of Public Administration from The Ohio State University. While completing her studies, Tashia served as a 2020 and 2021 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Foster Youth Intern.

Tashia formerly served as a Project Coordinator for the Center for Native Child and Family Resilience and the Child Welfare Review Project at JBS International Inc. She interned for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Program.

Tashia is a dedicated advocate for foster youth and part of the Nation Youth in Transition Database Review Team. She has volunteered with organizations such as FosterClub and Casey Family Programs to push policy that benefits the foster care community.

shaydnroberson@gmail.com

Kaysie Getty is a child welfare expert and dedicated advocate for young people and their families with experience working in community-based services, state systems, and on national policy.

A New Jersey native, Kaysie is currently a Senior Program Analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy working on the Youth Thrive Initiative. Prior to joining CSSP, she was at New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), Office of Family Voice as their Youth Programming Advisor where she established a statewide Youth Council that infuses the voices of young people with lived experience into policy, practice, programing and operations at the Department. She also serves as a national federal consultant, Support Coach, trainer for National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Reviewers through JBS International Inc. In 2020, Kaysie received Child Welfare League of America’s 100 Champions for Children Award for her outstanding efforts to advance excellence and innovation in serving children and families. She formerly served as a Board of Director Member for Foster Care Alumni of America.

Kaysie is also the founder of Sew EdUcated LLC a company that provides blue handmade stoles to young people and adults in and from foster care for their college graduations.

Kgetty2010@gmail.com

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As an alumna of foster care, Alexandria knows firsthand about the good, bad, ugly, missed opportunities, the mistrust, and the distrust of the foster care system. Alexandria was fortunate enough to be mentored and loved by people who helped her find her purpose in life and who have also contributed to her success. She founded Culture Creations Inc. to assist participants similar to her who have had a lived and shared foster care experience.

Alexandria works diligently to change the narrative of negative statistics to positive outcomes for foster care alumni. Her goal is to support, love her fellow foster care alumni in taking control in their lives by assisting them with access, opportunities, support, love and community support to obtain the resources that they need and deserve in order to reach their highest potential and find their purpose.

Alexandria’s Aunt Linda Jackson said it best… “Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors!” This is the time that we transform the narrative and outcomes for those who are navigating the foster care system, unsuccessfully. There are SEVERAL of us who acquire the knowledge, power, lived, and shared expertise and experiences to make effective, efficient and sustainable change.

alexandriarware@gmail.com

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Amnoni Myers is a dynamic child welfare advocate, public speaker, and consultant. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Amnoni now resides in Tulsa, Ok through the Tulsa Remote program where she relocated from California in November 2021. In 2017, Amnoni received her Masters of Public Administration degree from the National Urban Fellows Program in Manhattan, New York. In this prestigious program, Amnoni was placed at the California Endowment located in Oakland, California where she worked on The My Brother’s Keeper Initiative for young boys and men of color. As a consultant, Amnoni lends a unique perspective to the work as her experience travels from her own experience of aging out the foster care system and returning to the system as a professional to lead efforts of envisioning a better child welfare system. Amnoni previously worked with the U.S. Children’s Bureau as a child welfare policy consultant as well as interning on both Capitol Hill and The White House Domestic Policy Council where her policy recommendations on improving the system were picked up by a Senator and turned into draft legislation. Amnoni graduated from Gordon College with a double major in Social Work and Sociology and completed a Social Work and Peace and Conflict Studies Practicum in San Francisco, CA. She has also traveled to South Africa to study Race, Class, and Gender. Amnoni became a ward of the state at birth, and through her experiences in foster care she became committed to helping others understand the importance of their voice and experiences so that others can break the cycle of poverty. Amnoni has received numerous awards for her contributions she has made to child welfare nation-wide including being a recipient of The Re-envisioning foster care champion award, The National Urban Fellows Ron Gonzalez Memorial Fund Leadership Award , the Philip J. And The Rockstar of the year award. Amnoni is a compassionate and driven individual dedicated to reshaping policies affecting divested populations.

amnonimyers@gmail.com

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