OUR CHALLENGE

According to the 2005 California Report Card published by Children Now:

19% of California children under age 18 lives in poverty and 38% of those are in L.A. County

From the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council's 2004 Children's Scorecard:

The family reunification rate in LA County is only 33%, as compared with 73% statewide

The adoption rate in LA County is only 9% as compared with 30% statewide.

While L.A. is home to 29% of the state's children, 38% of the state's children in foster care are in L.A. County

From the 2003 Inter-Agency Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN) report

L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services logged 161,638 referrals for child abuse/neglect in 2002, and 30,785 of these children were removed from their homes due to severe physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse and neglect.

From the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

"Being removed from their home and placed in foster care is a difficult and stressful experience for any child. Many of these children have suffered some form of serious abuse or neglect. About 30% of children in foster care have severe emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems."

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