How can you change Carrie’s story?
This month Carrie* will turn 18. While most teenagers celebrate that age as the time they start to enter adulthood, for Carrie, that means she will be too old to stay in the foster care system. Friends in her high school (the fifth high school she has attended), will graduate in a few weeks. Not Carrie. She doesn’t know what the future holds. The family she is with this time seems to genuinely care for her. Not all the families she has lived with since she was 10 years old have been this caring. Some have been abusive and she quickly found herself in another house. Soon, Carrie knows she won’t be in this home anymore. Or anyone’s home. She isn’t ready for this.
Carrie represents only one of the 7,800 children in Oklahoma this past year who have a foster care story. https://www.fostercarecapacity.com/states/oklahoma
What could happen to Carrie? Because she has been in the foster care system, she is automatically vulnerable. She could be one of the 60% of children lured into sex trafficking.