Please write a short autobiography between 1500–3500 characters (including spaces - approx. 250-500 words). Please include any relevant information about your childhood, background and family history that may impact your volunteer advocacy role with children in the foster care system. Please include in your response any experience with issues which you may encounter as a volunteer advocate, such as: domestic violence; substance abuse; physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, or neglect/abandonment of children; psychotropic medication or mental health. *