Over the last 20 years the number of children in foster care has decreased significantly. Yet during this same period, the number of teenagers aging out of foster care without finding a permanent family has increased from 19,000 to more than 23,000 annually. Youth who exit care without achieving permanency are at risk of several negative outcomes, including lower income, poorer health, and higher arrest rates than their peers in the general population.
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