Will you Band Together?
Foster Care Statistics
Over 513,000 American children are in foster care, taken away when their families are in crisis and can’t take care of them. But there aren’t enough foster families to take them in. There isn’t enough money to provide them the things every child needs. There aren’t enough people to help them, mentor them, or to simply cheer them up and give them hope for the future.
If nothing changes… by the year 2020:
> Nearly 14 million reported cases of child abuse and neglect will be confirmed;
> 22,500 children will die of abuse or neglect, most before their fifth birthday;
> More than 9,000,000 children will spend some time in foster care
> More than 300,000 children will age out of our foster care system, some in poor health and many unprepared for success in higher education, technical college or the workforce; and,
> 99,000 former foster youth, who aged out of the system, will experience homelessness.
http://bandtogether.org/
What can YOU do?
Visit this website and take 5 minutes to write your congressmen/women and encourage them to pass the Adoption Incentive Program–a program that has helped thousands of young adults become adopted. If you click the link, all you have to do is fill out a brief form (the letter is already written, you simply add your name) and click send. These people have put together an excellent website and have made it extremely easy for people like you and me to get involved. Will you take five minutes to help this worthy cause?
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