Dominic Ruffin. Photo courtesy of The Sun.

Cheers to The Sun in San Bernadino, Calif., for this article about Dominic Ruffin, an aged out foster child who was homeless for seven months while in college.

Ruffin graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Cal State University San Bernadino College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He wants to pursue a master’s degree in social work and become a social worker.

Ruffin had been living in his car and sleeping in the library. Jean Peacock, a professor of psychology and human development, saw him in the library early in the morning, struck up a conversation with Dominic and discovered he was homeless. She helped him get on-campus housing.

“He wants to be a model and talk to youth who are going what he’s gone through,” Peacock said. “It’s his statement of purpose.”