Former foster youth to share her story

Former foster youth to share her story

Nationally and statewide the results are just as dismal. Half of all the country's emancipated foster youth become homeless sometime during the first 12 months. About half of California's foster youth complete high school; most become homeless and unemployed, and fewer than 3 percent attend college.

RhodesCourter said the system is failing foster children. Often caseworkers will take the easy way out and "dump" a foster child into one stranger's home after another rather than take the extra effort to find the child's relatives, work to get them approved as foster parents and bring permanence to the child's life, she said.