Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children, will bring in five major changes on the 1st of July, including one considered crucial for at-risk youth - to have a supporter to work alongside them through that difficult transition from 16 to 25 years old.
One young woman who’s already been benefiting of a support worker says it's the first time someone has "listened" to her voice.
She says it has opened up possibilities for her life she couldn't have imagined beforehand.
"It’s been my first real stable placement in care, and it's really good to have independence because obviously we are growing up and we're going to leave care soon and we don’t want them to just kick us to the kerb and have nothing," she told Newshub.
Lifewise CEO Moira Lawler says New Zealand owes it to the children after building a broken system.
"If we don't not only have we failed them then we have created an ongoing problem for all of us," Lawler says.
Housing support worker Eliza Prinsloo says it’s a big deal for one of the youths she works alongside talking to media.
She says she’s seen journeyed alongside youths who are traumatised and shattered but has noticed a huge change through transitional support services.
"It's huge, it's huge, it has to come from somewhere deep within and you have to be passionate about what you do."
The transitional Support Service is just one example of the many changes that will come into effect in July.
As many as 600 young people leave care each year without any transitional support and right now they're leaving without any financial and social backing.
All young people under the Ministry for Children's care will be able to access Transition Support Services.
The Minister for Children Tracey martin says the service will be able to be accessed by any young person leaving our care up to the age of 21, with the possibility of contact up until the age of 25.
"Creating the transition service and the intensive intervention service is creating that big change, that big change of what we need to truly look after young people and children in this country."
She says a huge change like this will also benefit New Zealand by changing the trajectory of young people’s lives.
Newshub.
