By Adizah Eghan, KQED News Fix
There are more than 60,000 children in foster care in California. Serving their needs depends largely on finding foster parents who can provide them with stable housing and care.
In her teens, Jennifer Rodriguez bounced between group homes, youth shelters and juvenile hall. Growing up, she says, her mother was a paranoid schizophrenic and her father was incarcerated. As a foster youth, Rodriguez says she was often described as manipulative. She would frequently run away, get into fights and spend time in psychiatric hospitals.
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