Category: Aging Out of Foster Care

Passport to Education: Matthew Schwartz

Posted on by Ariane Williams

Passport to Education: Matthew Schwartz I was left in a police station in Cliffside Park at the age of 13, and then put into a shelter where I spent four months of my life in a place called Conklin in Hackensack, a lock down facility for youth that are in emergency situations – basically a […]

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Aging Out: A Difficult Reality for Foster Parents

Posted on by Ariane Williams

You welcome him into your home, spend time building a relationship based on trust and acceptance and together you overcome hardships. You both fight and persevere through the inevitable setbacks that come with changing a life. But then he turns 21 in NJ and officially “ages out” of the foster care system and he leaves, […]

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