​We work with existing mentoring programs, bringing foster children into their program, and providing an overlay assisting with college readiness/scholarships, entrepreneurship and skilled trades, financial educations, housing placement, job placement and more.
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Participants can join in 8th grade and stay with the program until age 28, with the hopes that older participants will serve as volunteers, mentors and program managers.
FACTS:
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More than 250,000 children are placed in foster care each year in the U.S.
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23,000 will age out of foster care each year
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After reach age 18, 20% who age out, will become instantly homeless
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1 in 4 will not graduate or obtain a GED
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Less than 30% have a chance to earn a college degree at any point in their life
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7 out of 10 girls will be pregnant by age 21
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60% of men who are legally emancipated have been convicted of a crime
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75% of women and 33% of men receive government benefits to meet basic needs after aging out
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1 in 2 will develop a substance dependence