More than 60,000 children and youth currently live in the California foster care system.  While foster care may be temporary for some, more than 10 percent transition to adulthood, often times on their own.  When a foster youth leaves the system, they generally lose nearly all of the assistance and support they counted on while in care - financial, educational, social, and otherwise.  Although significant improvements have been made in recent years supporting emancipating youth, unique and impactful innovations from partner organizations and programs outside of government help these young people successfully turn surviving into thriving, more effectively bridging the transition from the foster care system to adulthood.  Our panelists will speak to one such partnership, and discuss how to best address this gap in services with limited resources.