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Street Positive is joining forces with agencies and organization's coast-to-coast to help Foster Youth and Children Not Living With Parents succeed in life.

The reason:
Each year nearly 500,000 children are placed in foster care. "Aging out" the system often leaves these young people without a support system they can rely on.  And, without an education, job or life skills to make it in life the future can look very bleak.  But, there is about to be a Street Style Positive™ change!

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•Approximately 20,000 youth “age out” or emancipate from foster care each year.

•100,000 foster youth live in California.

•65% of youth leaving foster care, in California, do so without a place to live.

•Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation.

•58% of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters in 1997 had previously been in foster care.

•Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year.

•44% of foster youth are less likely to graduate from high school. After emancipation, 40–50 percent never complete high school.

•Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population.

•60% of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care.

•Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.