Aging Out Should Not Mean Falling Off a Cliff
Too many young people leave foster care into housing instability, weak support, education barriers, and economic precarity.
Too many young people are asked to become adults without the stability, relationships, housing, or public attention they deserve. We treat foster care as a question of design, dignity, and truth.
Too many young people leave foster care into housing instability, weak support, education barriers, and economic precarity.
House movement on foster-youth legislation is a chance to follow the gap between policy language and lived implementation in housing, legal services, and education.
Advocates are pushing to stop governments from using children's benefits, including SSI, to offset the cost of their care. We frame it as dignity, public ethics, and material survival.
Housing instability after foster care is one of the clearest tests of whether systems are built to support young people once custody ends.