North Carolina’s foster care system is in crisis. It doesn’t have to be

North Carolina’s foster care system is in crisis. It doesn’t have to be

For the past 15 years, I’ve opened my home — and my heart — to more than 40 children in North Carolina’s foster care system. I’ve welcomed toddlers still trembling from trauma. I’ve celebrated with teenagers as they crossed high school stages in caps and gowns. I’ve held the hands of birth mothers during supervised visits and stood silently behind protective glass in jails, watching families shattered by addiction and incarceration. I’ve waited …