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The need is growing!
Housing the estimated 20,000 young people who age out of foster care each year is a struggle in communities around the country, but no where is that struggle more urgent than in
California
– home to one-fifth of the nation’s emancipated foster youth.
At a time when foster youth advocates believe that up to half of the youth who age
out of foster care become homeless within 18 months,
California
serves as the most glaring example of the challenges they face. A 2002 study by
the California Department of Social Services concluded that 65 percent of the 4,355
foster youth who aged out in the previous year lacked stable housing.
Joshua House is rising to the need of God’s children and setting
forth on a long term mission to provide help to those who need it.
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