One population of foster children that often doesn’t get the right kind of attention is those who age out of foster care. This cliff that youth often fall off of exists due to many factors. Some of the problems are due to the system they are leaving and the resources that are drying up. Some of it is the trauma they have lived through and the instability that has left so many of them lacking basic life skills. Part of the problem is a lack of experienced adults to offer support to fall back on. Maurita McCorkle has seen so many young adults struggle as they leave foster care that she has taken it on as her mission to try to help. Maurita has written a book about her experience and started a non-profit with the goal of surrounding young adults with everything they need to succeed in adulthood, no matter what they have experienced in life up until that point. Find out more about her story and her dreams for the future in this episode.
In Our Shoes
Find out more about Maurita’s non-profit. You can donate and even find out how to volunteer on her organization’s website here.
When Our Love is not Enough
Get to know Maurita better by reading her story in her book. You can purchase that here.
Adoption Uncovered 
One response to “Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkle”
Awesome topic! I can’t wait to read the book. My siblings and I were all removed from our home one at a time and placed in foster. All of us were adopted except our brother who grew up and aged out in foster care. We all were amazed how well he did, but then he died of a medical condition at 38. My way to honor his story was write and illustrate a graphic novel about our family, Connecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found.
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