{"id":392249,"date":"2026-07-30T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392249\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:33:08","slug":"foster-youth-who-age-out-of-the-system-need-hope-and-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392249\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster youth who age out of the system need hope, and housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I became a foster\/adoptive parent, former Houston Chronicle reporter Kristin Finan was a sounding board for my joys and pains of navigating a frayed child-welfare system.<\/p>\n

She and her husband have two biological children and adopted two others through foster care. Finan later co-founded Austin-based Carrying Hope, a nonprofit that provides children in foster care with essential resources, support services and housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, I wrote about the organization’s Hair + Hope program<\/a>, which provides free hair-care services. In 2023, Carrying Hope<\/a> opened its first transitional housing community for young adults ages 18 to 21 who have aged out of foster care. They receive housing and other needed resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the organization is working to open a third transitional housing project in San Marcos and is crowdfunding <\/a>to make it a reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are transitional living programs in Houston and in communities across the state, but the need far exceeds the available resources.<\/p>\n

Young people leaving foster care face enough obstacles as they enter adulthood. Having a safe place to call home shouldn’t be one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organizations like Carrying Hope can’t solve every challenge facing former foster youth, but they can provide something every young adult deserves: a stable place to begin building a future.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I became a foster\/adoptive parent, former Houston Chronicle reporter Kristin Finan was a sounding board for my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-392249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}