November is celebrated as National Adoption Month and one teenage boy living in foster care is just one of more than 12,000 children awaiting adoption in NC.
A teenage girl living in foster care needs help finding an adoptive family. Fourteen-year-old Haley said, "I would be happy to know there is somebody out there"
The number of foster care homes in North Carolina dropped 23 percent in 2022 and the amount of children entering care is outpacing the available homes.
Throughout Michael's childhood growing up in foster care, he said he saw it as a time of growth after spending half of his life without a place to call home.