president olague: i have some questions for ms. adams. i'm really unfamiliar with the experience of most foster care youth, and i'm just wondering, what's like the transition, really, that a typical person would experience after 18 out of the system? i'm just curious. >> so what happens now is that you're eligible to be in the foster care system until the age of 18 in san francisco, "snl" you graduate high school. -- until you graduate high school. you can't emancipate out of the system until you've completed high school, at least in san francisco. if you're in the foster care system and you're a teenager, you should be working on independent living skills at that point that a social worker or a foster parents or if you're in a group home, should be working with you on what you're going to do when you transition at 18. where you're going to go, what's going to happen. unfortunately, that doesn't happen consistently. so when we talk about youth emancipating out of the foster care system and then falling out, right, or becoming homeless, it