The Dreher High School graduate is getting job training at Bridges Club House and says she wants to work with kids like in a day care. At Dreher, she worked in the school office during open periods and helped with filing papers and other office work.

April plans to stay at Leaphart “until I can make it on my own, like completely on my own where I don’t have to have a lot of help.” The New Jersey native hopes to return to her home state one day, where an older sister and other family members live. But she also has two younger siblings in nearby St. Matthews, as well as an uncle she has never met.

April has been in foster care since she was 2 weeks old and only recently got in touch with her biological father. “It was weird,” she said. “It was a lot weird.” Her
biological mother died earlier this year. April says the only thing she would change about Leaphart Place is the rule banning pets. She does, however, admit that when one of her foster mothers offered to get her a cat if she could keep a houseplant alive for a year, the plant didn’t make it.