Aging Out Foster Youth (part 2)

Pilot project for the Nation - Footsteps to the Future
www.footstepstothefuture.org

Imagine those ill-prepared foster kids who, on the day they turn 18, age out of the foster-care system. Whatever home life they may have had up to that point—good, bad or indifferent—is suddenly taken away. Where they go and what they do next can be a daunting mystery. Beyond simply finding a place to live, too many of these teens succumb to drug and alcohol abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment and other social misfortune which can ironically land them in an equally dreadful criminal-justice system.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Fostercare
• Homeless
• Abuse
• Aging-out

[facialexerciser]

This sounds like a wonderful program for teens aging out of foster care, but I wish that we as a society, married couples, single women, grandparents, would bring these children into our homes and adopt them, or be their legal guardians. I'll be getting my fost/adopt license in March 2012 and I plan to adopt teens aging out of the system.

[scottrex33]

your idiots. Sure there sad people. The biggest problem is that our government has made us to poor to afford children. The problem is federal government. No more of this bull shit foster program. The churches and the families in the community can take better care of foster care than government. I am a Former foster child. Dont tell me your bull shit. these foster programs are mentally exhausting entities.