Imagine telling your children on their 19th birthdays that they must leave the family home, will receive no more financial or emotional support, and are on their own to figure out how to make money or go to school. That is the reality for 700 youths every year in B.C. — foster children raised by the Ministry for Children and Families who, on their 19th birthdays, lose all the supports on which they had come to rely.
READ & WATCH the Vancouver Sun series | Part 1: From care to where? | Video 1: Why 19 is too young | Part 2: Left to pick up his own pieces (with video) | Part 3: A continuing need for support | Video 4: These kids need help out of foster care | Video 5: Too young to be forced out the door | Video 6: Very scary turning 19 and out of foster care | Full series: From care to where? |
