- This group is constantly connected to their digital and offline friends, they value diversity and social justice within a whole new global context and they’ve been raised to learn in teams and work for the collective.
- They are creative, open-minded, tech-savvy and ambitious
- Never knowing a time without technology has made this generation technology-dependent and hyper-aware of the latest news and global issues.
- They are opportunists who want to gain experience, make connections, and lead.
- They are socially aware, justice-minded individuals who want to make a difference; 60 percent want to have an impact on the world with their jobs
Foster Kids of Our Rising Generation
- Foster kids enter the system not due to something they did, but due to their parents inability to care for them. Many of these innocent kids enter care with little to no belongings and have suffered the effects of abuse, poverty, neglect, witnessed the effects of drug addiction or have lost their parent to death or incarceration.
- The number of children in foster care increased 2.3% this year to 437,465—a figure that has risen every year since 2012.
- Only 50% graduate high school
- 60% of prison inmates were once foster kids
- They are twice as likely to suffer from PTSD as war veterans
- 250,000 kids enter foster care each year
- Over 28,000 age out of the system each year
- Aging out of care is especially daunting as they are left on their own to find housing and employment, without the funds, education, or guidance that would allow them to succeed
- 7 out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system will become pregnant before the age of 21
- Only 1 out of every 2 foster kids who age out of the system will have some form of gainful employment by the age of 24
- After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless