Yolo County had more than 100 transitional-age youth in foster care last year and the need for foster parents for these teens continues to grow.
Many of these youths β ages 14 to 20 β are never reunited with their families or find adoptive parents and end up emancipating from the system instead. Studies repeatedly have shown that these young people, who lack a family support system as they transition into adulthood, face high rates of unemployment, incarceration, substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors. Fewer than 5 percent of foster youths ever graduate from college.
In California, 65 percent of emancipated youths leave care without having a place to live.
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