Care-experienced
Leaving care should not mean leaving you on your own.
Leaving Care Portal is a home for people who grew up in the care of the state. It is not a government site, and it does not ask you to trade your story for a place to stand.
In danger now — call 911
This calls emergency services. This portal does not answer.
Say what you need firstFour rooms. This is the first.
- Open
This door
You are in it. A plain welcome, so you know what this place is before anything else opens.
- Open
Community
Talk, notes, and names you do not want lost. Still on this phone.
Open this room - Open
Practical
Papers, a place to sleep, and money. A checklist on this phone. It does not apply for you.
Open this room - Open
The register
A name held on this phone, so a care-experienced person who went missing is not erased.
Open this room
What do you need first?
This only decides which room opens next. It stays on this device. Nothing is sent.
What this is
- For people who were in care, including state wards.
- Grown by people who left, for people still walking out.
- Plain language. No performance required.
What this is not
- Not a government office.
- Not a fundraiser.
- Not an emergency line. The button above calls 911.