From Foster Care to Dignity at Scale: A Conversation with Rob Scheer of Comfort Cases - The Charity Charge Show

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In this episode of The Charity Charge Show, we sit down with Rob Scheer, founder of Comfort Cases , a nonprofit that has delivered more than 300,000 backpacks filled with essentials to children entering foster care across all 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and soon Canada. Growing Up in the System Rob did not come to foster care as an advocate. He came as a child who lived it. He entered foster care because of abuse, not neglect. Cigarette burns on his body are reminders he still carries at 59 years old. Like many children in the system, he became a number, a file, a case. When he aged out at 18, he joined the tens of thousands of young people who are pushed out with no safety net. Within 24 hours, most become homeless. Rob was one of them. He survived addiction, multiple suicide attempts, and repeated psychiatric hospitalizations. At 24, after nearly dying from an overdose, he made a decision that changed everything. He chose forgiveness. Not to excuse what happened, but to take his life back. That decision did not make him a hero. It made him accountable.