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PA's Black Youth More Likely to Be in, Stay in Foster Care: Report

Ryanne Persinger, The Philadelphia Tribune •
The 2018 report “Fostering Youth Transitions Using Data to Drive Policy and Practice Decisions” collected data from all 50 states in 2016 — the most recent data available — in order to assess the transition of youth from foster care to adulthood. “The disparate grows the deeper you go into the system,” said Jennifer Pokempner, child welfare policy director of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia. “You are seeing in the data that when they get into the system and if they are youth of color, things like moving (around in different foster homes) and aging out of the system without finding
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