• Nearly 500,000 youth are in foster care system in the United States and 50,000 reside in California.
• Youth age out of the foster care system between age 18 and 21 depending on the state they live in.
• 20% of use transitioning out of foster care system are a mediately homeless and nearly 50% are homeless with and 18 month.
• 50% of Foster youth do not graduate from high school in less than 3% every earn a college degree 50% of former foster youth health annual income less than $6000.
• Nearly 70% of girls will leave the foster care system become pregnant by age 21.
• Newly 70% of all state prison inmates were once in the foster care system.

Sex traffic youth/CSCC Dash commercial sexual exploitation of children

• Approximately 300,000 American children are trafficked 4six with in the United States each year.
• Approximately 80% of the sex trafficked victims come from the foster care system.
• The average age of these victims is 11 to 14.
• Nearly 80% of the transactions for sex with these children begin on the Internet.

When we become aware of these daunting statistics existing with in our very midst… When we realize that each statistic represents the life of one of our youth… When we understand the societal and generational implications of weird these statistics lead…