Every year more than 25,000 kids age-out of foster care.
Foster youth are winners with the same potential as every other youth.
OFA strongly believes that positive recognition and support from the community are key to making the critical transition from foster care to adulthood successful for parentless youth. We have never received any government funds. All funding for scholarships and program management comes from the private contributions of caring individuals, concerned groups and conscientious corporations. As a nurse who worked sporadically when her paranoid schizophrenia allowed it, she had already spent a decade living with her daughter and two sons in dozens of run-down buildings . When I walk around the University of Akron campus, I look just like every freshman-scared and confused, but filled with excitement and optimism.