Foster Care
Youth in Foster Care
Statistics
100

Who do they try to place children and youth with after being detained, before placing them in a group home or foster home?

What is with family members 

100

True or False?

Teenagers are the most difficult to foster.

What is False

100

Between 1870-1957 around how many children were send to Canada from Britain because of neglect & orphaned. 

Approximately 100,000

(Family and Children’s Services, n.d.)

200

Name 3 reasons children are placed in foster care.

What is:

Neglect

Abandonment

Inadequate Housing

Abuse (physical and/or sexual)

Parental Drug/Alcohol Use

Domestic Violence

Incarceration

Parental Death

(Mkydev, 2021).

200

True or False?

LGBTQ youth are less likely to suffer from consistent harassment and abuse in foster care, juvenile justice settings and homeless shelters.

What is False

(OACAS Library Guides, N.d).

200

Approximately ___% of children in Canadian foster care reunify with their birth parents.

What is 52.2%

(Flourishing Foundation, 2021).

300

What Canadian culture is most vulnerable in foster care.

What is First Nations

(Until the Last Child, 2014).

300

True or False?

For every 1,000 youths in Canadian foster care, only eight go on to graduate from a Post Secondary School.

What is True

(Samson, A., & April, A. 2021)

300

What is the age that youth "age out of foster care"

What is 18

(University of Toronto, 2020)

400

What is the average age group of a child in foster care?

What is 10-14 years old

(Government of Canada, Statistics Canada, 2020).

400

Approximately ___% of youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ.

What is 30%

(OACAS Library Guides, N.d).

400

True or False

Approximately 8% of children in foster care experience Physical Abuse. 

False

20% of children in the system are physically abused. 

(Wikipedia, 2023).

500

There are approximately over ______ children and youth in foster care in the Canada. 

What is 63,000

(Mkydev, 2021).

500

Name 3 of the most prominent worries of Teens in foster care.

Housing/ Aging Out/ Homelessness

Younger Siblings

Education/ Training

Lack of Employment

(Youth.gov. 2011).



500

Approximately how many youth age out of Foster Care in Canada each year?

What is 2,000

(University of Toronto, 2020)