Working together to help foster and homeless students succeed

On any given day, thousands of California children wake up as foster youth, separated from their biological families under court order.
Six times as many wake up in a car, on a borrowed couch of a relative or friend, or on a street. During the 2018-19 school year, California officially reported 33,563 foster youth attended public schools—0.5% of all California students. Another 207,677 students were officially identified as homeless—3.4% of all California students. In Orange County a