The B.C. Coroners Service has investigated the deaths of 200 youth who died over a six-year period, just before or after aging out of the government’s foster care system into an uncertain future with little emotional or financial support.
“These young people leaving government care died at five times the rate of the general population of young people in British Columbia,” said the report, released Monday by Michael Egilson, chair of the coroner’s child death review unit.
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