Foster youth face challenges unfamiliar to many of us. But some determined young people who aged out of the foster care system are beating the odds, and a local charity golf tournament is doing its part to help.
Results recently released from a long-term survey tell a grim story. Roughly 30,000 youths age out of the foster care system annually. The study found that only half who had turned 18 and “aged out” of foster care were employed by their mid-20s. Six in ten men had been convicted of a crime, and three in four women, many of them with children of their own, were receiving some form of public assistance. Only six in 100 had completed even a community college degree. Read more –>
