Twenty-four thousand children exit the foster care system each year (Fowler, Toro, and Miles 1454). Of these, about half are African-American, followed by Caucasians and other minorities. Many problems face these children placed in the foster care system. Of course, it is obvious that they need a place to live when they are under eighteen and they also need the love and support of the people around them. Another little-known problem these young people face is once they leave the foster care system, many find themselves without permanent housing, housing that they can finally say exists and that no one is going to take it away from them. This article will explain why this is a problem for them and some ideas from which we can try to make changes for the better. For years we have needed to find housing for children who have nowhere to turn. In recent years, our country has taken over by doing just that. In the past, these children were followed by mostly Catholic orphanages, forced into forced labor and even had to beg for money, also called alms, to be able to provide for basic needs. These places were managed by the priest and the nuns who lived there. Often these children had little food and few clothes. The orphanage that was in Galveston in the early 1900s was run by 3 nuns and 2 priests for the 90 children housed there. Obviously, these children have had very little quality time with adults. Today the situation has improved a little, as they no longer have many orphanages and have been replaced by foster families. Young people have more problems in newspapers than any other race in America. This must have contributed to the high number of African Americans in the penal system. There absolutely needs to be more awareness of cultural sensitivity on the part of not only the social workers who make the decision to remove these children from their homes, but also on the part of the government that oversees these various agencies so that this overrepresentation of this certain population will be reduced. The necessary steps are courses that will make these workers more aware of what to expect when entering these homes and how the people they encounter will be different and how to more accurately decipher whether the children are actually in danger of death. All of this will contribute to the overall mental and physical well-being of these children as they move in and out of the foster care system...