It’s been a year since 19-year-old Airanna Gibbons attended her first monthly meeting at Harbor58, a Lakewood Ranch nonprofit that supports young adults who have aged out of the foster care system.
That meeting was in October, so it doubled as a Halloween party. Annie Wilson, a Harbor58 mentor, had been inviting Gibbons to meetings every month since they met at the group home where Gibbons was living.
“She was very (persistent),” Gibbons said of Wilson. “She would text me every single time to say, ‘If you want me to come pick you up, just let me know.”…