12/23 – foster care statistics

This year roughly 22,000 young adults will age out of the foster care system at 18. Of those kids:

• 20% will experience homelessness;

• 25% will be incarcerated within 2 years of aging out of foster care;

• 50% of the young women in foster care will become pregnant before the age of 19.

We want to give these youths a fighting chance at a real future. This is why we do what we do. Learn more at http://blavinscholars.org/

 

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This year roughly 22,000 young adults will age out of the foster care system at 18. (link to FB post)