Every year, over 23,000 kids will age out of the foster care system here in the United States. What’s even crazier is that 20% (almost 5,000 kids) will become instantly homeless. That’s where Pivot came to the rescue.

Pivot helps ex-foster kids who are homeless.

Pivot is a non-profit that is dedicated to helping youth from all walks of life. Their mission statement says:

“Pivot, Inc. is a nonprofit community organization that advocates, educates, intervenes and counsels youth and families to make a positive difference in their lives.”

Who doesn’t want to help an organization like that, right?

Tiny homes for homeless teens.

Remember that stat from the beginning? 5,000 kids are rendered homeless every year from aging out of the foster care system. In April of 2018, Pivot was awarded a grant for $100,000 to begin building an entire community of tiny homes…just for homeless teens!

A tiny home?

Tiny homes are typically categorized as a fully functional home that is 400 square feet or less, excluding lofts. The houses that Pivot builds come furnished with a bed, kitchen, and bathroom! Often, tiny houses are viewed as just a millennial leaning architectural movement, but with these houses, its more than just design, its lifesaving!

More than just houses.

Often, follow-up and follow-through get less attention than big actions like building houses. Not with Pivot. More than just building homes for the kids-turned-adults, Pivot offers counseling, education, training, and friendship through their facility which is quite literally, right in the kid’s backyards.

The opportunity to succeed.

There are endless possibilities for at-risk youth to make a wrong decision, often because of their environment or surroundings. Pivot states:

“Bad decisions, environmental factors, addiction, unidentified trauma, lack of supervision and undiagnosed mental health disorders can lead youth down the wrong path.”

The solution is to change the environment. That’s what makes Pivot so successful. When you don’t know where your next meal could come from, or you don’t have a place to sleep for the night, you can find yourself choosing things you would normally never consider. With meals, counseling, housing, and education, these kids have a shot at life that they didn’t have before.

19-year-old who couch-surfed finds home.

Carter went through the foster care system as a teenager after his mother passed away when he was ten and his father went to prison. He spent many nights in homeless shelters wondering where he would live next. Carter now finds himself as a part of Pivot’s housing program.

“Having a bed’s going to be different. I sleep on a couch right now and have a lot of back problems from it”

The lifechanging work of Pivot.

Many kids have seen their lives turned around, directly resulting from Pivot’s incredible generosity. Through the tiny home program, the education possibilities, and just having someone who genuinely cares, they are doing work that will impact lives for generations.

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Source: KFOR