Foster Care & Extended Foster Care, Juvenile Justice
President Obama Names May 2015 National Foster Care Month
Recognizing that “Children are best raised in families, not institutions,” President Barak Obama on April 30th issued a proclamation naming May 2015 as National Foster Care Month. There are over 400,000 boys and girls in the nation’s foster care system. More than 100,000 of them are waiting to be adopted, and every year, 23,000 young people age out of the system — never having found the security of a permanent home. There also continue to be disproportionate numbers of African-American and Native American youth in the foster care system, compounding the disparities these communities too often face. The administration is committed to supporting innovative strategies that strengthen families, improve the foster care system, and prevent children from entering the system in the first place.