Background Information
A temporary service providing care and protection to children and adolescents removed from their family
What is Foster Care?
The age at which most children will age-out of the foster care system (some states vary from this)
What is 18?
In 2017, 44% of children in the foster care system identified with this race
What is Non-hispanic white?
The percentage of children that come into foster care with at least 1 medical problem
What is 80%?
The care of a child by relatives or close family friends when the biological parents are found unfit to do so
What is kinship care?
The percentage of children who age out of the foster care system that suffer direct effects from PTSD
What is 25%?
What is the average time child will spend in the foster care system?
What is 2 years?
This is the percentage of children that enter the foster care system with significant oral health issues
What is 40%
True or False:
Foster care is supposed to be only a temporary solution for parents and their children
What is True?
The percentage of girls who age out of the foster care system that become pregnant before the age of 21
What is 70%?
The average age of children when they enter the foster care system
What is 8-years-old?
The percentage of children in foster care younger than 5 that have developmental health issues
What is 60%?
True or False:
Foster care can also refer to placement in settings such as group homes, residential care facilities, emergency shelters and supervised independent living
What is True?
The number of children who age out of foster care every year
What is 23,000?
The number of children in the foster care system in the United States on any given day
Between 400,000-500,000
(Statistics currently say 443,000)
The percentage of school aged children in foster care that have educational difficulties
What is 40%?
Name 3 of the most common reasons that children are placed in the foster care system
1. Neglect
2. Parent substance abuse
3. Physical and sexual abuse
4. Housing
5. Parental incarceration
The percentage of children in foster care have a chronic medical condition
What is 33%?