Love Yourself Independent Living

05/27/2021

Website coming soon!

07/16/2020

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Love Yourself Independent Living is an organization that provides transitional living arrangements for aged out foster kids in an independent living setting. At LYIL we provide food, clothing, furniture, personal items, job readiness skills, education resources and financial skills. Please donate whatever you can. No amount is too small. Let’s be the change. 💚

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https://youtu.be/kZyI3Q9tro4

It's a little weird and lonely having an apartment for the first time after growing up in group homes. Josh Mendoza and Katrena Wingo of Tampa, Florida offer...

07/16/2020

More than 23,000 children will age out of the US foster care system every year. After 18, 20% of the children that were in foster care will become instantly homeless. Only 50% of the foster kids who age out of the system will gain employment by the age of 24. Our Mission at Love Yourself Independent Living is to provide aged out foster children with a home and help them gain the necessary skills to become productive members of society by teaching them job readiness skills, financial skills and help provide means for them to go to college to further their education. We also provide the tools necessary to live independently such as food, clothing, furniture and personal items until they are able to find stable employment. We will teach them life skills and show them that they are thought and cared about. Help Love yourself Independent Living care for the youth that will shape the future of the world.

07/03/2020

Life is hard as it is just imagine not having the love and support as well as no family this is exactly what ages out foster kids are going through! 💚

07/03/2020

https://youtu.be/lAyljashF2A

Children aging out of foster care and becoming homeless is a growing epidemic that people need to take the time to understand. This video is both informative...

07/03/2020

More than 23,000 children will age out of the US foster care system every year.
After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless.
Only 1 out of every 2 foster kids who age out of the system will have some form of gainful employment by the age of 24.
There is less than a 3% chance for children who have aged out of foster care to earn a college degree at any point in their life.
7 out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system will become pregnant before the age of 21.

51 Useful Aging Out of Foster Care Statistics | Social Race Media Some children don’t have loving homes that they can call their own. For whatever reason, the parents of these children are not able to provide for them and neither is their extended family. When this occurs, the child will be placed...

07/02/2020

I am passionate about helping people and love Kids. So one day I was brain storming about how can I help people? I begun to research about foster kids, Maybe I can come a foster parent! as I read about foster kids and seen how many young adult age out of foster care with no where to go or no one to love them and teach the how to become a successful adult. I decided to open up a independent living for young adults 18-21.

07/02/2020