Rasberry's House of Hope focuses on providing a safe haven for young ladies who have aged out of foster care and women recently released from prison. Unfortunately, they are often one and the same.
Most children who are emancipated from foster care dream of someday going back home to their biological families, only to discover that once they arrive home, things don't always work out, and thus they take to the streets. And on the streets is where they are introduced to drugs, alcohol, violence, abuse, sex trafficking, unwanted pregnancies, homelessness, joblessness, continued mental illness, incarceration, and sometimes death.
Aging out of foster care is not easy as some would think. Every child is not ready to conquer the world all alone just because they turn 18.
Most children who are emancipated from foster care dream of someday going back home to their biological families, only to discover that once they arrive home, things don't always work out, and thus they take to the streets. And on the streets is where they are introduced to drugs, alcohol, violence, abuse, sex trafficking, unwanted pregnancies, homelessness, joblessness, continued mental illness, incarceration, and sometimes death.
Aging out of foster care is not easy as some would think. Every child is not ready to conquer the world all alone just because they turn 18.