ABSTRACT
This chapter explores children’s lived experience of nonfinite loss and cumulative loss in foster care. Monique B. Mitchell addresses how foster care transition transactions evoke multiple non-death losses across the foster care continuum: at “the beginning” when a child enters the foster care system, “in the middle” of the foster care experience, and “at the end” when children transition out of foster care. Mitchell concludes the chapter by identifying the supports needed for grieving children in foster care and the importance of moving the child welfare community toward a grief-informed holistic model of care.
