For former foster care youth, Mi Casa is their home

For former foster care youth, Mi Casa is their home

For many young adults, turning 18 proves a rather lackluster rite of passage, bearing few changes of real consequence.

But for Chanel Finley, like other teens in foster care, the landmark birthday meant losing her home.



Note: Most foster children don't have this sort of an option available.

Check out this study in PDF from Brown University's Sociology Department
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Sociology/faculty/silver/sirs/papers/firdion.pdf

See what it says about foster care being a signifigant factor in the homeless population.