'We need adoptive families': Heart Galleries of Texas gives ways to support foster children after graduation

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Over the next few weeks, high school graduates will soon be celebrated all over Central Texas for their accomplishments.

However, graduation season can be a scary time for hundreds of kids who are aging out of the Texas foster care system.

Just last year, nearly 900 kids turned 18 and aged out of the system facing, in some cases, an abrupt independence without the safety nets most young people rely on.

Erin Argue, the post-permanency director for Heart Galleries of Texas...