Foster Children Do Worse than peers in education and mental health
This Percentage of Foster Children Get a High School Diploma…
A TELETHON Kids Institute (TKI) report on young people from out-of-home care that contributed to the State Government’s decision in March to back a Home Stretch trial supporting young people in State care to the age of 21, has been released today. The report led by researcher Melissa O’Donnell […]
Of the 2003 young people from State care monitored for the report:
80 per cent had not completed a high school certificate
4 per cent were university-bound
27 per cent had a mental health contact
20 per cent had a juvenile detention and/or adult imprisonment
38 per cent had a juvenile and/or adult community-based sentence.
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