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"You're just bouncing from place to place to place to place to place." Documentary subject Dasani shares some of the challenges he's faced while in group homes. #HBO #HBODocs #FosterHBO Subscribe to the HBO YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/wtFYd7 Don’t have HBO? Order Now: https://play.hbonow.com/ Get More HBO: Get HBO GO: https://play.hbogo.com/ Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hbodocs Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HBODocs Like on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hbo/ Subscribe on Tumblr: http://hbo.tumblr.com/ Official Site: http://www.hbo.com

Many of the experiences children face prior to their adoption are frightening, confusing and disheartening. To learn more about adoption from foster care, visit http://www.adoptuskids.org.

Before she was an inmate, Michelle Voorhees was a kid in foster care. Painting a vivid picture, Voorhees asks you to imagine the harrowing, disconcerting experience of being removed from your own home. Story link: https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html Video by Shelly Yang and Neil Nakahodo Links to all the stories in the Throwaway Kids series: Part One of Six: ‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’ https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html Part Two of Six: As U.S. spends billions on foster care, families are pulled apart and forgotten https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238243099.html Part Three of Six: Frequent moves don’t just harm foster kids’ emotions — they hurt their brains https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238204784.html Part Four of Six: Graduation rate of 35 percent? Many foster children ‘robbed of a good education’ https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238246264.html Part Five of Six: Aging out: Thousands of foster youth graduate to the streets every year https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238226224.html Part Six of Six: ‘The state that neglected me as a kid is the same state that wants to kill me’ https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238280638.html "Throwaway Kids" is a special Kansas City Star investigation published in December 2019: A longtime advocate in Kansas City once told a reporter that foster care was “just a breeding ground for prison.” That comment stuck with us and eventually led to this project. The yearlong investigation began with prisons and branched out into a more comprehensive look at long-term outcomes for children who age out of the nation’s broken, overwhelmed foster care system.  More from The Kansas City Star: Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2FDe1zT Twitter: https://twitter.com/KCStar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kansascitystar/ Website: https://www.kansascity.com/ Digital news subscription: http://bit.ly/2CDAZoD