Aging out under normal circumstances is tough, COVID-19 makes it tougher.
, where benefits typically end at age 21. She currently lives in a San Francisco Bay Area apartment subsidized by her foster care benefits and an organization focused on providing affordable housing for foster youth. She stopped working to care for her newborn daughter, Ailani.
The high school diploma program she was enrolled in shut down without the option of distance learning because there weren’t enough laptops and tablets to go around. “The biggest hurdles that we're seeing right now are the people who literally are losing housing during the state of emergency,” said Sixto Cancel, a former foster youth and CEO ofAging out of foster care under normal circumstances is tough. More thanand are at increased risk of homelessness. COVID-19 has only complicated things.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced California saw its first daily decrease in intensive care hospitalizations during the coronavirus outbreak, during his daily news briefing at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif., April 9, 2020.Other states -- including Illinois, Michigan and Rhode Island, plus the District of Columbia -- have also taken action to prevent foster youth from aging out during this crisis. But many others haven’t taken such action.
“It says if a medical condition prevents the young person from meeting these requirements, they're exempt. But it doesn't say that the child has to have a medical condition. It says a medical condition,” said White. “So our interpretation of that is a pandemic is a medical condition that prevents us from going to work or school, so we feel that the federal law already has a workaround.”John H.
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