OH Budget Proposal Bridges Gap from Foster Care to Adulthood

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Wright State University student Adrian McLemore says foster youth often walk alone on the rough road from their teen years to young adulthood – and he knows, because he aged out of the system in 2004.

“The system kind of says, ‘All right, here’s your bags, good luck in life,’ without any really clear direction as to where they go from there, whether we’re preparing them to go to college or go to a vocational or technical school, or just asking them to function as a productive citizen.”

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