Teen Project Extreme Home Makeover !

Teen Project Extreme Home Makeover !

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http://www.theteenproject.us/donate.asp


Last year, while serving on the Foster Care Advisory board, it was brought to my attention that most kids leaving the system are homeless, they leave with no money, cars, parents, phones they just walk out. I went home and started researching and I was devasted to find that for foster children who turn 18: • 65 percent emancipate without a place to live• Although 70 percent of foster youth express a desire to go to college, less than 3% go.• In California, an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 youth are homeless and living on the streets.• A National study reported that more than 1 in 5 youth who arrived at shelters came directly from foster care. I had to do something. When I wasn't at work or at home with the kids, I was talking about it. I started telling my story, and the story of our kids, every chance I could.In September 2007 I started a non profit, The Teen Project. I went to the bank with $400 in donations. I was so excited that people cared. But I never could have imagined how much they cared. Now, one year later, we have built a strong team of caring volunteers and we are all talking about it everywhere we go. We have raised more than $250,000 in donations. In August, we bought our first home (in Lake Forest) for six teen girls, and we will support them through college. We have an online database to provide homeless youth with immediate access to shelter. And in 2009 we will initiate an outreach program to help youth still living on the streets. We will bring them bus cards, food cards and phone cards. The Teen Project is a parent to the parentless. With God's help, we will bring them home.

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