More Foster Care Programs

More and more foster kids now days are finding the transition from childhood to adulthood more difficult.  Due to the outrageous cost of living today, many foster children struggle to adapt to today's society. Most foster children lack the skills one would obtain through regular schooling and a regular home-life. To accommodate these teens, programs such as PAL (Preparation for Adult Living) have been organized to assist the fostered in need. These programs provide life skills training, financial assistance, and other services such as driver's education and job training. The House Committee on Human Services should work to increase the budget towards these types of programs and, also, to create more programs such as these to provide funding not only for the children, but also to the state workers who coordinate the programs. These services should begin earlier in foster children's lives to help the kids at earlier ages.  With the foster system continually growing, more aid should be given to kids to help motivate them and to prepare them for the first step in to adulthood.

-Brian B