British Columbia's new representative for children and youth says the government needs to offer more support for teenagers who are moving out of provincial care because of their age.
Bernard Richard says the latest case his office investigated involving the death of a 19-year-old aboriginal woman in Surrey shows the need for change.
The woman had been out of government care for seven months.
Richard says she was found dead inside a tent in an area popular with the homeless.
Autopsy and toxicology reports are required to confirm a cause of death.
He says the latest file has many similarities to the case of an 18-year-old who died after plunging from a motel window in Abbotsford while staying there, unsupervised and alone.