The Day I Age Out: Part One 

This is SO WRONG. To not give foster kids a good start in life when they age out. I am actually looking into adopting from foster care so I can have opportunity to be a mom and make a home for a child and support them in all ways we humans need. I could not have started college if it weren't for my parents' support. We all need that.

I wish you guys the best they definitely need to reform the foster care system.

I left in 2016 at age 18 from Indiana Foster Care. I was tired of being treated like a 2 year old. On May 12, 2023 I graduated from the University of Southern California.

If it's illegal for landlords to discriminate applicants based on student status who does the student go to to get the landlord in trouble. Did the landlord get in trouble? If so I hope Mykell got at least one month of free rent. I want a update on Mykell and Corey. - Former foster kid

The aging out age should be increased to 25. Most foster children are literally without parents or extended families, and they're usually abused/traumatized within the foster 'care' system itself.

god bless people who do this for the "homeless" teens aging out.

My heart really goes out to this youth, I’m praying that this messed up system gets fixed. I hope the two people featured are thriving in life 🙏🏾✨

That no one adopted this young man as a baby is truly very sad.

cant the adults they stay with keep them in their home even if they're not getting paid? that's cruel to turn someone out on the street at 18 or 21 with nothing! they should be ashamed of themselves!

This video was 3 years ago...I wonder how things are for you now! Send me a message, I’d love to support.

Just because she going to school full time the landlord do not except her this is so unfair. I hope things are better for her today. God be with her.

"Adults" who have never had security of any kind, forced out with nothing, the same way they entered.

This is true, had a scholarship to london university doing physics and philosophy, very strong in academia and care leaver myself I had to drop out of university to recieve housing benefit for a domestic violence shleter and subsequently my own apartment, i had lived with an abusive boyfriend so that i could work and study and paid his rent as the system wouldnt help me with rent even tho because i was studying they were supposed to, they said id invite my abusive ex round when i really just needed somewhere safe to go or would never have met him or stayed; police cant find u housing so if i put i a statement i was going home to his adress waiting for him to be released and did get beat and just end up homeless at times. i stuck at uni the whole time until the i got to the shleter and was basically told i had to drop out of university immediately and ended up in thousands of debt from that. before all that i privately rented wen i could but its hard no guarantor, student statut, working part time or full time compared to a couple both working having to pay extra deposits and sometimes discriminated by your age and inexperience.

Foster care/ the child welfare system creates codependency in many foster children because many of us have experienced unstable, dysfunctional, more times than not abusive homes making us extremely vulnerable. Children are highly impressionable and these years are so significant. Ripping a child away from their biological family is also another trauma added on to our many. And then constantly having to move from home to home, school to school can cause many issues within a developing child. Stability, support and love are lacking within the system. All these factors added together creates codependency in (former) foster children which can be a big challenge in adulthood.

So don't they have a programme to get them skilled enough to leave?

Age 21???? You're SOOOOO lucky! I had to leave at midnight on my 18th birthday.

This guy is such a sweetheart, I felt touched when he mentioned overwhelm in what's needed to live ur life. So he was never taught life skills and his Foster father did not even let him open a can???????????????

It was illegal what they did, but she could drop one class to make less credits and then she is no longer full time student status. She also dosnst have to tell them that on thr phone at all. She is working bad she has a section 8 voucher and that's all they need to know for their rent to be paid. I'm a section 8 landlord. I accept section8 and I don't care how you come up with your portion if you are working. If you are full voucher, that's even better!

Those stats are beyond unacceptable. They should receive free college tuition and a real chance at life. Who is in charge of foster care reform in the U.S.?

That girl caught on camera that those people just discriminated against him for being a student she needs to sue because it is illegal to To tell her that they came into her because she’s a full-time student

Es triste los hijos merecen lo mejor una casa comida. Apoyo comprencion

Where are these kids now??

How do foster care know whom to reach out to for kinship care?

What a backwards system! 🤔

Mi still in fosta care... fml

The writing is too small. they can do better so this info can be known.

That was hard for Mykell, that she couldn't even apply for an apartment, just because she is a full time student. Just at the end, it is mentioned that that was illegal. But those things probably still happen a lot. For the rest I was thinking: count your blessings, girl! So many young women from around the world would want to change places with you. You are a grown adult and need to take care of yourself. That's only normal. Yes, some young people have it easier, but the majority does not! You get to study and make something out of yourself. You even get the chance of shopping for free. You live in quite a nice city. Learn to be thankful and you have learned a lot. Life lies open for you to construct positively.

Wait why aren't they just adopted?