This is my mentee Terri. She has been in Foster Care her entire life. The system did exactly what it was built to do - hold a child in foster by the state. Splintered love, fractional learning, and emotional wounds, the state raised her at arms length, and adoption failed her. Her disability back pay now is being controlled by her housing nonprofit forcing her to use it to buy a car that will depreciate daily until it breaks and she has no money for repair because she can only work part time due to the rules of SS. $1200 in her account is the max she can have. Even as an adult, the rules dictate her life. We just certified her as a human rights youth advocate so she can stand up and fix the system that allows for failed adoptions of foster youth. The adults failed her and the gaps in the system allowed it to happen.