Famous Foster Kids
This gymnast who holds 11 Olympic medals, including 7 golds, also spent three years in foster care before being adopted at the age of 6 by her grandparents.
Who is Simone Biles?
Approximately how many children are in foster care as of September 2022?
368,530 children
A temporary arrangement where children live with foster parents, relatives, or in a facility when their birth parents are unable to care for them.
What is Foster Care?
This campus resource is committed to improving the educational outcomes for foster youth and former foster youth by providing services and support to meet their needs through transition, graduation, and post-graduation planning.
Guardian Scholars Program
This American artistic gymnast was adopted at 3 months old from South Korea. His scores on the parallel bars, pommel horse, and rings anchored his team to a bronze medal finish in the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships.
Who is Yul Moldauer?
Children in California’s foster care system experience frequent placement changes. 44% of children in foster care for 24 months or longer experience how many placements?
3 or more
This refers to the physical setting in which a child lives after being removed from their home and placed in substitute care.
What is Placement?
This campus program allows volunteers and community members to support Guardian Scholars by being an ally, mentor, professional partner, or providing financial support.
Friends of the Guardian Scholars Program
This American Actress, who became known for playing "blonde bombshells," spent most of her childhood in 12 Foster homes and an orphanage. Diamonds became this girl's best friend.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
Foster youth experience rates of homelessness ranging from what percentage?
11-38%
This refers to a goal of foster care which can be for the child to be safely reunited with the child's family
What is Reunification?
This campus partner aims to support students by providing access to nutritious food, economic crisis resources, case management, immediate shelter and support for unhoused students, and assistance applying for CalFresh and other social services.
Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center
This talk show host turned Media Mogul spent the first six years of her life in kinship care with her grandmother. Later, she became a meme who gave out cars to her audience.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
In California, the statewide average high school graduation rate by youth is 83%. What % of students in foster care graduate on time?
53%
This refers to when a child is cared for full-time by a relative like a grandparent or a sibling
What is Kinship Care?
This campus resource is committed to serving the student body at UC Davis by helping students who are first-generation and low-income strengthen their academic skills to meet the demands of a research university. This Program includes the Special Transitional Enrichment Program (STEP) and the Gonzalez Pre-Law Academy *GLPA)
Educational Opportunity Program
This Elvis-loving, hula-dancing Disney character lived with her sister and their fuzzy blue friend in kinship care after her parents passed in a car accident.
Who is Lilo Pelekai (from Lilo & Stitch)?
What percentage of foster care youth earn a four-year degree?
3-4%
This refers to the process of a youth transitioning from the formal control of the foster care system towards independent living.
Aging Out
This campus resource is based on a partnership between UC Davis and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to help keep foster youth connected to their family members
Center for Excellence in Family Finding, Engagement and Support