About Us
What We Do
In addition to providing housing support, we providing financial support and other assistance for individuals who need support beyond foster care.
Foster Beyond is a hub of information for individuals in transition looking for career pathways, resume assistance, academic enrollment assistance, and anything else that can contribute to success.
Our agency’s purpose is to provide support by putting foster youth on the path to success and helping them take care of themselves and become productive members of society.
Some of that support entails:
- Grocery
- Home and bedroom décor
- Clothing
- Toiletry
- Prescription medicine
- Health and wellness activities
- Downpayment
- Transportation
- Counseling
- School book
- Transitional
Housing has always been a major economic deterrent for youth, especially if they do not have anyone to depend on. Foster Beyond provides affordable housing, in addition to services thatcontribute to development and mental progression so foster youth can become contributing members of society.
Weekly group meetings, contributions of food and groceries, clothing, resume assistance, employment development, school enrollment and everything else that can get an individual moving towards being able to support themselves without subsidies or assistance.
Our history
CEO and Founder Audrey Martin was born and raised in Southern California where Downtown Los Angeles was once a hub for homeless youth and young adults. Being exposed to such conditions has always clutched at Audrey’s heartstrings so she began volunteering early on at the Los Angeles City Mission.
Passing out backpacks or food and clothes, data input in the foundation department, and tutoring individuals in core subjects
to help pass the GED are some of the assignments she was tasked.
As time progressed, Audrey’s need to help further included being a candy striper at Los Angeles Harbor Hospital, becoming a Homework Hero for Norfolk, VA public library, and participating in other activities where she was able to walk, run, peddle, or swim to contribute to multiple life saving measures.
Growing up with foster siblings, Audrey always encouraged social development and healthy mental growth from her family members. Becoming a listening ear and trying to find innovative solutions to
problems that were sometimes unable to be put into words has been a driving force behind the creation of Foster Beyond.
Audrey's non-profit is a way for her and her team to give back to the community on different avenues with a family feel so her clients are given love, hope, support, and everything that a parent can give their children while headed towards adulthood.