BOARDMAN TWP., Ohio - In Ohio about 1,000 teens in foster care age out of the system each year without ever finding a forever home.

 

Too often they don't have the tools they need to become successful adults.

 

But a local non-profit is working to build a place where these teens can go to change that.

 

This fun cookie decorating day  for kids and families will be helping kids who grew up waiting for and never finding a permanent family to love and guide them. 

 

Kids who were placed in foster care and have aged out often have no where to go and lack skills to become successful adults.

 

"These kids are forgotten. They are the ones who age out of foster care and nobody is really thinking about what happens to them after they leave," said Marcie Consiglio the Executive Director of Moab House. 

 

The dream of Moab house is to provide that hope and help by building apartments where  former foster youth age 18 to 21 can liv. Her goal is to protect them from abuse, human trafficking, and homelessness.

 

It will be independent living apartments but it will be combined into a common area where they will cook together, they'll eat together when their schedule will allow as family they can put into the house we will put into that house. That's what we're going to be doing," Consiglio added.

 

You can follow them on Facebook or donate through moabhouse.org

 

The inspiration comes from the Bible.

 

"Moab is the place where Moses stood in the Bible and that's where God showed him the promised land. We say this isn't the foster youth's promised land. It's the place before their promised land," Consiglio emphasized.

 

Even the Grinch who found a heart was here helping entertain kids at this dance, and book reading at Rush Church Fellowship Hall in Boardman.

 

Money raised here will also help the group buy Christmas gifts for youth in foster care.