#foster-care-transition

#foster-care-transition

The organization began in 1997, when Amy Lemley and Deanne Pearn, two graduate students at Berkeley, realized that young people transitioning out of foster care had little in the way of public support. They were literally dropped off on a corner or at a homeless shelter with a garbage bag of belongings, and that was it, said Jayme Catalano, First Place for Youth's communications director.