The Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP) was founded by Yasmin Mistry, who spent years working with children, their families and the court system as a CASA Volunteer.  She has helped find kids a permanent home, good educational opportunities and needed medical and social services. As she heard the children she was working with find their voices, she wondered how, and whether, other foster youth ever truly found theirs. So she decided to answer this question using the tools she knew best, animation and film, to give foster youth a chance to be heard.  The Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP) has three goals: 1) to provide role models for youth currently in the foster care system, giving them work experience as well as hope and inspiration for a better future; 2) to dispel negative stereotypes about foster care by showing how school, extended family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life; 3) to educate general audiences about foster care, inspiring action within their communities.

We have partnered with the Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP) on multiple occasions for online film screenings and panel discussions.  Yasmin is always eager to share her insight with the foster care community and to share the voices of current and former foster youth around the nation.