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More than 700 youth enter the foster care system every day.

23,000 foster youth age out every year.

1 in 5 youth will be homeless when they age out of foster care.

Adopting children from Foster Care can be of little or no cost.

1 in 184 youth in the U.S. are in foster care.

The average age of a youth in foster care is 8 years.

There are over 400,000 youth in the foster care system at any given time.

70% of foster youth aspire to pursue a college education.

34 months is the average time it takes for foster youth to get adopted.