Six and a half years in foster care is enough to turn a boy into a man. At nineteen Jonathan Michael Littman, known better as Jon, is not only a student at Sacramento city College, but a father and a husband, and just to put the icing on the cake he is a mentor for young foster care children,  Monday through Friday.

Just looking at Littman you have to admit he looks like every other nineteen year old guy on campus, curly hair, bright shoes and a skateboard; also known as his right hand man, he seems almost a little too laid back sometimes. Who would have known that he has seven siblings, a thirteen month old baby, a wife and an overactive imagination.

"I like to believe that life is a game with the end goal of dying happy," says Littman, "whatever that means."

Littman spent his childhood in foster care, and now as a young adult and active father he is working steadily on giving back to the community in which he grew up.

"It's been my life goal to be a mentor," Littman says simply.

After school Littman catches the light rail to work, then visits his daughter, wife and his siblings, family is a very important part of Littmans life. Just remember that Littman is nineteen years old, and with everything on his plate you would imagine that he is a pretty stressed out guy, but instead he is a happy guy, a smile always on his face, in class he will be the first to ask a question, the first to volunteer help.

So the big question is how did growing up in foster care shape Littmans life? It did so in every way possible. He looked back at the way he was raised and decided right then what he would change, though he is a young father, he works his hardest, and it is so apparent, he talks in such a manner that is almost beyond his years and you automatically upon first meeting him feel as if you have already made one of those lifelong friends.