Aging out of foster care isn’t easy. All of a sudden, someone is out on their own and responsible for so many things. That’s why it’s essential to equip these kids with the right tools before they age out of the system. Our goal is to give kids the tools they need to be productive members of society.

20 percent of foster youth will become homeless the day they age out.

• And approximately 20,000 age out every year. That means approximately 4,000 kids per year leave foster care into homelessness.
• Less than half of all foster youth graduate high school.
• Half of youth who have aged out of foster care end up homeless or incarcerated.
• 75% of young women in foster care report at least one pregnancy by age 21, compared to 33% in the general population.
• Only 5% are proficient in math.
• Only half of foster kids who age out of the system will have gainful employment by the age of 24.
• These children often enter the world traumatized, alone, and with no guidance from anyone. This leaves them open for further abuse and dangerous or even deadly situations. Around 32% of all homeless young adults experience some form of assault or robbery, 14% will engage in some form of “survival sex”—whether it be in the form of prostitution or sex trafficking—and a quarter of them will end up imprisoned.