Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared Angelina King
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in a foster home, then a group home. But at 18, he was forced to be on his own.
Diakhaby, who is now 21, says he didn t feel ready; he was still perfecting his English, he didn t know how to cook and needed help with homework. I was thinking, How am I going to be able to do my groceries? How to cook? How to go to school? How to pay my rent? How to get a job? he told CBC Toronto.