Los Angeles Foster System

Foster Care Counts

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 05.18.2012

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Daniel Heimpel

It is "Foster Mother's Day" and Gabbi is one of 2,200 foster children and their families who will cycle through Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker's 1.24-acre home and garden on Los Angeles' West Side.

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The Fight to Make Well-Being a Foster Child's Right

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Foster System, Foster Care, Fostering-Connections-to-Success-and-Increasing-Adoptions-Act, Teenagers, Healthy Living News
Daniel Heimpel

Roughly 4,000 foster youth age out of California's foster care system every year. For most their 18th birthday is not so much a day of celebration as one of total isolation.

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