Long Beach Rescue Mission opens new youth shelter, expects it to be full ‘immediately’

Yishreal Maxwell’s 18th birthday was approaching fast.

Homeless since he was 11, Maxwell entered the foster care system last March at 17. He remembers the years between, making a bed of the backseat of a 2006 Saturn Ion with his brother.

With 10 months until he “aged out” of the system, he quickly applied himself. He re-entered high school, and laid out goals of owning a car he didn’t have to sleep in and becoming a professional model…

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