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Juvenile Law Center:
  • Over 20,000 youth age-out of foster care at 18 without a permanent family and often without supportive adults in their lives.
    • ​According to The California Policy Lab, approximately 1,000 age-out in Los Angeles County.
The Alliance for Children’s Rights:
  • Only 58% of young people in foster care graduate from high school.
  • Only 3% of former foster youth graduate from college.
  • Teen girls in foster care are 2.5 times more likely to become pregnant by age 19.
National Foster Youth Institute:
  • A background of abuse and trauma makes current and former foster youth more vulnerable to sex trafficking. 
  • More than 60% of child trafficking victims are current or former foster youth.
  • One in five former foster youth will become homeless after the age of 18.
  • Only half of those aging out will be employed at the age of 24.
  • ​Within four years of aging out, 50% have no earnings, and those who do make an average annual income of $7,500.
  • 25% of former foster youth will be in prison within two years of aging out.​
National Library of Medicine: 
  • Former foster youth are diagnosed with PTSD at roughly twice the rate of their peers in the general population.


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