Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge

It is National Foster Care Awareness Month
There are over 365,000 children and youth in foster care.
Approximately 18,500 youth are emancipated from foster care without a permanent family.
In 2021, 77 percent of eligible youth in foster care, ages 14–21 years old, left care without receiving the federally funded services necessary to prepare them for adulthood and independent living.