Fast Facts
TWT Centers: Helping Young Adults Make the Difficult Transition from Foster Care to an Often Unwelcoming Workplace
Statistics indicate that a significant number of youth exiting foster care fall through administrative cracks, resulting in homelessness, addiction, incarceration and sometimes, suicide.
Research shows that many of these individuals are ill-equipped to assimilate to life outside the system and lack necessary social skills for success. Many aged-out youth have never experienced proper preparation, motivation and training to understand workplace culture.
These youth are expected to make it on their own as independent adults!
The Facts:
In California, of the approximately 4,000 youths per year aging out of foster care:
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Nearly 50% remain unemployed by the age of 24; 1.5 times more than the general population
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More than 25% are incarcerated and 42% will be convicted of a crime; 7 times more the than general population
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20% experience homelessness and 29% will be unable to pay rent; 4 times more than the general population
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7 out of 10 young women will become pregnant before they turn 21; 2.5 times more than the general population
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25% of foster youth experience PTSD, which is twice the rate of US war veterans
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24% will have no high school diploma or GED; 3 times more than the general population
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Only 3% of former foster youth earn a 2- or 4-year college degree; 10 times lower than the general population
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