The Crisis

Symptoms of the Crisis

More than 7 Million
children are impacted by the child welfare system, and over 343,000 are in foster care.

90%
of these children will experience severe trauma.

About 44%
will reunite with their biological families.

25%
will attempt suicide.

For the 15,000 young adults who age out each year,

81%
of young men will become incarcerated.

71%
of young women will be pregnant before their twenty-first birthday, with half of their children destined to be placed in the foster care system themselves.

40%
will be homeless within 18 months.

97%
will immediately enter into chronic poverty.