When foster youth turn 18, the system doesn’t collapse—it disappears. Overnight, support is replaced with silence, and survival becomes their responsibility alone. This is the gap the Phoenix Foundation of Nevada exists to fill.

He’d been left by everyone. So he got very good at making people want to go first. Born in a California prison. Adopted. Abandoned at Child Haven by the only father he knew. A civil citation was the consequence. A piece of paper. For a child. Then he met Zachary. John ran every trick he had. Zachary didn’t leave. That decision became everything we’re building. phxfoundationnv.org