>> i guess a neighbor called family services and said i was running outside barefooted. so they came out and said, oh, this is not fit for a child. the parents were fighting and everything so they just took us out and we went into foster placement. >> oh, look at the front of that car. >> when he was 19, his father died and for a brief time he lived with his mother in jacksonville. when she moved into a new apartment a few months later, she told him he couldn't live with her no more. >> that night i slept in the church and slept in the stairway, freezing cold. i went on the streets. became homeless, you know, officially first time being homeless. >> rodney has been on and off the streets for five years. recently, he applied to a couple of local schools to become a patient care technician, a health care professional who provides direct care to patients. >> i'm like man, i'm tired of this. i need to make something happen and make something happen fast,