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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. 
  • Approximately 60% of children who were victims of child sex trafficking had been involved with child welfare services.
 
Juvenile Law Center:
  • 23,000 youth age-out of foster care at 18 without a permanent family and often without supportive adults in their lives.
  • Half of all young adults who age-out of foster care end up homeless or incarcerated.
  • LGBTQ-identified youth, youth of color, and young parents are over-represented in the youth homelessness population.
 
National Conference of State Legislators: 
  • Foster care alumni are diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at a rate of 21.5%, versus 4.5% of the general adult population.
  • Foster care alumni are diagnosed with Major Depressive Episode at a rate of 15.3% versus 10.6 percent of the general adult population.  


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