A Dallas cafe is hiring young adults who have aged out of the foster care system to keep them off the streets

https://news.yahoo.com/dallas-cafe-hiring-young-adults-184346698.html

Kelly McLaughlin)
,INSIDER•March 13, 2020

La La Land Kind Cafe in Dallas, Texas, is hiring young adults who were foster children to help keep them employed after leaving the foster care system.

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Foster children usually age out of the system when they're 18, though there's no set age that marks the end of foster care. Some stay in the system until they're 21.

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Across the US, about 20,000 youth age out of the foster system every year. Only half successfully gain employment, and 20% become instantly homeless, according to the National Foster Youth Institute.

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