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Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care

Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care

This documentary follows young adults going through the process of finding their way after foster care. Through youth telling their stories, and also by hearing from professionals in the field, it explains how children enter the foster care system, what happens while they are there, and especially the hardships they face as they transition out of it.

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Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care
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This documentary follows the process of young adults finding their way after foster care.
Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care
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This documentary follows the process of young adults finding their way after foster care.
Living in a Shed
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Maritza describes life after foster care as a teenage mother and her need for housing.
Music Is My Therapy
1:00
Rozo describes how her difficult past inspires her music.
Survival Mode: Foster Youth Search for Housing
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Michael Nes highlights the struggle transitional aged foster youth face in finding housing
Chris’ Foster Mother Opens Her Doors
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Chris’ foster mother opened her doors. They gave him housing, shaped him, and mentored him
Off to College
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Flo credits her path to college to her older sister’s kinship care, Marcy.
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