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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: In the living room. Tonight we make over or Barry

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Speaker 2: makes Over the backyard of the Doyle family. This is

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Speaker 2: a family who have fostered a huge number of kids

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Speaker 2: for many years, and they've also started a charity called

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Speaker 2: Foster Angels. Because when I was talking to Kelly, who's

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Speaker 2: the mom of the family, I was shocked to hear

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Speaker 2: how so many foster kids fall through the cracks in

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Speaker 2: the system. It's such an eye opener. So I thought

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Speaker 2: we'd get her on so we can all have our

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Speaker 2: eyes open to this. Hello, Kelly, how are you hi?

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Speaker 1: Amanda? Excellent? Thank you?

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Speaker 2: How's your backyard going? By the way, without giving her

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Speaker 2: too many secrets of tonight's show, loving it please to

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Speaker 2: hear it, so tell us what happened. I wasn't even

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Speaker 2: aware that when kids in foster care turn eighteen, foster

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Speaker 2: care ends for them. If they're not with a family,

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Speaker 2: if they're in an institution or therewith in the foster system,

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Speaker 2: they are booted out at eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right. That's when they're legally an adult and government

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Speaker 1: funding for them ceases, and they call their eighteenth birthday

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Speaker 1: d day and it's not something they look forward to.

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Speaker 1: You know, when my kids were turning eighteen, there were

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Speaker 1: parties and formals and schoolies and all of those normal

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Speaker 1: things that young people look forward to. And for kids

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Speaker 1: in out of home care, for a lot of them,

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Speaker 1: it's actually faced with dread because that's when the uncertainty starts.

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Speaker 2: And so where do they go from there? I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you're eighteen, you haven't had any family skills, where

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Speaker 2: do you go?

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Speaker 1: Well, some are lucky enough to stay on with carers,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's a bit of a misconception about

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Speaker 1: young people or children into foster care. They go to

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Speaker 1: one family and they stay there until they're thirty and

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Speaker 1: they move out and get married. But the harsh reality

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Speaker 1: is around a third of children have more than eleven placements,

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Speaker 1: So that's eleven moves, that's potentially eleven schools, eleven families.

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Speaker 1: They they don't have that stability, and so by the

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Speaker 1: time that they're eighteen and they age out of foster care,

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Speaker 1: they just don't leave home with the same social capital

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Speaker 1: or life skills that most young people do. At the moment,

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Speaker 1: there's little more than refuge, accommodation, transitional crisis, all of

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Speaker 1: those things that don't give anyone that sense of stability

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Speaker 1: or normality and.

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Speaker 3: Oose society to so people that can actually look after

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Speaker 3: these kids, so that indeed become a burden on society

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, absolutely, their statistical outcomes are extremely poor. They're

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Speaker 1: a third of them experienced homelessness within a year of

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Speaker 1: leaving care. Two thirds haven't completed their HSC. And they

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Speaker 1: sort of start that cycle of poverty very early because

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Speaker 1: without that education that they have poor employment opportunities and

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Speaker 1: lower wages and kind of a downward spiral and they're

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Speaker 1: just beginning their adult lives.

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Speaker 2: You were telling me about a study that was done

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Speaker 2: that if we funded if the government funded the system

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Speaker 2: till they were twenty one, how different the outcomes would be.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's correct. It was a Deloitte economic study a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and the return on investment was incredible.

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Speaker 1: It's just we have to put up that money initially

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Speaker 1: and give the kids the stability and the support until

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Speaker 1: they're twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is great, So your stories tonight on the

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Speaker 3: living room. You can go to the website to find

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Speaker 3: out how you can help. At Fostercareagels dot org dot au.

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Speaker 2: Or would you rather we went to the launchpad dot

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Speaker 2: the launchpad dot org dot au. I think that's the one, is.

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Speaker 1: It, Kelly, Well, yeah, the Fostercare Angels is the charity

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Speaker 1: and in launch the launch Pad is the program and

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Speaker 1: that's where it talks about our life skills program and

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Speaker 1: our subsidized housing and all the rest.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, we're bringing awareness to it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Guys, look after yourself

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Speaker 1: With Jones and Amanda