foster children

An organization is building a community of 24 tiny homes to help teach life skills to young men aging out of foster care.

Jaquan Melton fell asleep in the church’s fallout shelter, amid lockers and Clorox cleaning supplies, while the adoptive mother who abandoned him continued to receive $700 a month from the government to care for him.

Foster children are four times more likely to move and change elementary schools during an academic year than children not in foster care.