RSSHomes for 18 Year Old Foster ‘Children’
Yvonne Evans’ project in Landmark’s SELP program involves providing places to live for foster children who turn 18 but who have no place to live. According to Evans, over half of all foster care children who turn 18 have no place to live and a quarter of them eventually end up in prison. Watch the video below to see Evans talk about the problem and what can be done about it.
Have just begun to throw around ideas with a couple friends about how to help the ‘aged out of Foster Care” in the Los Angeles area. (An old resurrected dream of mine) Part of my plan involves a benefit to raise awareness and multiple types of support for this group of young people.
Other ideas include a summer or year-round volunteer program offering incentives to these youth connected to creative programs in arts, sports, job skills, tutoring for GED and college, etc. (A friend of a friend helped with a drama program in another state that kept a group of these creative-types focused on their other goals in order to remain in the production of the play they did.)
Your video (Yvonne Evans and Monte Hynes?) was the first thing I’ve come upon on-line that sounds like what I would like to do in the LA area. I would love to know how it’s going there. How long ago was this video made? – How are things going in Walnut Creek?
A kindred spirit,
Linda Lee Fields