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Ep. 105 - Ruth White: What Do We Do with the Kids?

Oct 16, 2020

What's happening to children reaching an age to leave a foster home? What do we do with kids when there is not a good place to go?  Ruth White is the Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare. Children need better homes where they’re protected either with their families or with people who will genuinely take care of them. Young adults coming out of foster also require a stable place to call home so they don’t become homeless. She champions young people in foster homes who have reached an age of majority and normally have to leave. However, many colleges during COVID allowed young people to stay, including foster students. She describes the benefits of the family unification program and her passion to help children.