I just wanted to highlite a few of the statistics I have written in the margins.
50% of people that had been in foster care become homeless at some point in their lives.
30% of foster youth graduate from high school or obtain their GED before they are emancipated or age out of the foster care system.
I talked to a woman that runs a teen homeless street outreach program that told me that 30% of the youth they find living on the streets that they being to the youth shelter had been in foster care at some point in their lives.
These are just a few. I am personally very curious about the percentage of foster youth that receive disability services. I think we will find that a very high percent of foster youth having learning or behavioral disabilities and require special education services and vocational services. There’s more too, but I have to get off the computer now.
