Learn About Foster Care
The Hope Center serves Wake County’s foster teens and former foster youth. Children are temporarily placed in foster care when their parents are unable to safely care for them. The primary goal of foster care is to reunite children with their families when it becomes safe. Sometimes that is not possible and children remain in foster care until they are adopted or “age out.”
Resources:
Annie E. Casey Foundation: The AECF has a wealth of resources on foster care and aging out.
SaySo: SaySo- which stands for STRONG ABLE YOUTH SPEAKING OUT- is a statewide association of youth aged 14 to 24 who are or have been in the out-of-home care system that is based in North Carolina.
“Aging out was hard. I really didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t have a job, school was hard, I didn’t have a place to go afterwards. I didn’t want to be homeless, I didn’t want to go live with my sister and do stuff I shouldn’t be doing there. It was a stressful situation. Life made it as hard as it could.”
“Aging out was hard. I really didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t have a job, school was hard, I didn’t have a place to go afterwards. I didn’t want to be homeless, I didn’t want to go live with my sister and do stuff I shouldn’t be doing there. It was a stressful situation. Life made it as hard as it could.”