Imagine yourself as a kid who has been taken away from your family and placed in as many as ten different homes with adults that are supposed to parent you. Now imagine it’s your 18th birthday and your most recent “parent” hands you a trash bag filled with your belongings, says goodbye, and sends you out into the world alone.

Would you have made it?

Foster kids are abandoned twice: first by their parents, and then again, by the system created to raise them. As of their 18th birthday, they’re alone.

We’re not okay with that, and we’ve made a promise
to the abandoned kids of our community . . .

The Founders and friends of Turtle Nest Village (TNV) are committed to preventing the homelessness and despair that are often an unintended consequence of foster care - one life at a time. By giving former foster youth access to the resources they need, we heal the symptoms of a broken system. Through our advocacy on a local, state and national level, we work to repair the system.