There are more than 1,760 youth in Sacramento, Nevada, and Placer counties who will grow up in foster care and “emancipate” (age out of at age 18) the system without a family­unless we help them.
(Sacramento, Nevada, and Placer counties)

Within two to four years of aging out of the foster care system, 51% of foster youth are unemployed, 25% are homeless, and 40% have been incarcerated.
(The Office of the Governor of California)

Of the children leaving foster care at age 18, 50% do not complete high school and 60% of young women have a child within four years.
(The California Partnership for Children)

The average age a young adult in the United States is entirely independent of family financial support is 27.
(The Child Welfare League of America)

THE JIM CASEY YOUTH
OPPORTUNITIES INITIATIVE www.jimcaseyyouth.org/specialtopics/
agingout/agingout-resources.htm

ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE STATISTICS FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research

STATISTICS FOR CALIFORNIA CHILD
WELFARE OUTCOMES
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cwo03/
state_data/california.htm

BREAKING BARRIERS TO
TEEN ADOPTION
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THE CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA
www.cwla.org/programs/fostercare
www.cwla.org/programs/fostercare/
agingoutresources.htm