DENVER — One year after its launch, a state program that provides rent assistance to young adults who have aged out of the foster care system has helped more than 80 Coloradans.

Samantha Chavez entered foster care when she was 10 years old. Her father had passed away a few months earlier, and she and her brother were later taken away from their mother in a case of neglect.

It was not easy growing up in the foster care system, according to Chavez.

"I went through a lot of foster homes, like a lot. I couldn't even count on my fingers," she told Denver7. "I was homeless for the longest time because I refused to go back into a foster home because of how bad it got."

When she was a few months pregnant, she found out about the new rental assistance program specifically for young adults who

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