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Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care

This documentary follows the process of young adults finding their way after foster care.

01/18/2018

Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care

Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care

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This documentary follows the process of young adults finding their way after foster care.

This documentary follows young adults going through the process of finding their way after foster care. Through youth telling their stories, and also by hearing from professionals in the field, it explains how children enter the foster care system, what happens while they are there, and especially the hardships they face as they transition out of it.

01/18/2018

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Congratulations, You're On Your Own: Life After Foster Care is a local public television program presented by PBS SoCal

Chris’ Foster Mother Opens Her Doors

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Clip: Special | 1m | Chris’ foster mother opened her doors. They gave him housing, shaped him, and mentored him (1m)

Living in a Shed

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Clip: Special | 30s | Maritza describes life after foster care as a teenage mother and her need for housing. (30s)

Music Is My Therapy

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Clip: Special | 1m | Rozo describes how her difficult past inspires her music. (1m)

Off to College

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Clip: Special | 1m | Flo credits her path to college to her older sister’s kinship care, Marcy. (1m)

Survival Mode: Foster Youth Search for Housing

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Clip: Special | 30s | Michael Nes highlights the struggle transitional aged foster youth face in finding housing (30s)

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