Children in our schools are facing horrible outcomes at no fault of their own. We believe it doesn't have to be that way. All foster children can achieve their full potential, with our love and support, to overcome these odds.

• There are more than 500,000 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.
• 100,000 foster youth live in California.
• In California, 65% of youth leaving foster care do so without a place to live.
• 46% of foster youth will not complete high school.
• Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation.
• Twenty seven percent (27%) of persons at a homeless shelter spent time in foster care.
• Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5 to 4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year.
• Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become mothers within 2.5 to 4 years after exiting care.
• Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.
• 1% of foster youth earn a college degree

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