Country Singer Jimmy Wayne’s “Project MMH”

Country singer Jimmy Wayne was one of the nearly 30,000 youth who age out of the foster care system every year. Knowing from his own experience the difficulties that foster children face when they turn 18 and are suddenly no longer eligible for services, he founded “Project Meet Me Halfway” to raise awareness for aging-out foster youth. Through the project, Wayne released a documentary chronicling his 1700 mile walk from Nashville, TN to Phoenix, AZ highlighting the extreme poverty and homelessness aged-out foster youth often fall into.

In March 2011, Wayne was introduced as a spokesperson for National CASA Association at the 2011 National Conference.

You can watch a clip from the beginning of his walk across the country below.