Youths are furnished for new lives
Area youths who have turned 18 and have left the foster care system now will have an easier time making it on their own.
Book of Dreams readers purchased dressers, chairs, microwave ovens, pots, pans, comforter sets and other household items for the Stanford Home for Children's emancipating youth program. The program works to help teens who have "aged out" of the foster care system set up their own apartments.
Without the program, teens who have been raised in the foster care system would be left to fend for themselves after they become legal adults. The Stanford Home program works to launch the youths into adulthood with apartments, jobs and home furnishings.
"It's all beautiful, brand-new stuff that anybody would love to get," Julia Richmond, development specialist for Stanford Home, said of the newly purchased items. "Our clients are going to be extremely excited. And it will help us do what we do - help people live independently after living in a family setting."