What we do and why?

Founded in 2012, International Foster Care Alliance [IFCA] is a nonprofit organization that bridges child welfare on a global level by creating opportunities for transnational discussions and activities to better the world’s child welfare systems. For the last 14 years, IFCA’s focus has been to establish partnership and collaborations between the United States and Japan.

While continuing our collaboration with Japan, IFCA-US is now taking on the challenge of moving to the next level. 

This involves an initiative and a series of actions aimed at exploring the power of young people who have survived out-of-home care—both in terms of a broad geographic scope and in terms of the power of expression—as active participants in their own stories.

Specifically, this includes bringing together young people with lived experience in 0ut of home care from across the Americas and beyond to engage in dialogue and pursue self-discovery and self-liberation through various forms of visual art and literature, though it is not limited to these activities.