Cooking Up Confidence

  • Rachel Bithell

During the summer of 2025, the Foster Youth Initiative (FYI) of Santa Clarita, CA, rallied community resources to address a need. Carolyn Olsen, FYI’s executive director, explained, “Sadly, food insecurity is a common challenge for Santa Clarita’s foster youth who live below the poverty level and must stretch their limited resources to pay for housing, […]

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Rachel Bithell

Rachel Bithell is an adoptive and former foster parent. For several years, she taught trauma-informed parenting classes for her tri-county agency. When she’s not parenting her six children, she writes fiction and nonfiction for kids and their caregivers. You can find more of her writing and connect with her at rachelbithell.com.

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