Backpack Donations to Foster Care Project

Thanks to our generous community, Pillows & Plenty recently gave backpacks and $40 Amazon gift cards to youth in the foster care community.  The recipients were 9 males and 7 females of the All Saints Church Foster Care Project who are aging out of the system and entering their college careers.

In California there are 60,000 children and youth in the foster care system; approximately 15,000 are transition-age youth. Almost 31% of transition-age foster youth experience homelessness; young men in California who were in foster care are 82% more likely to become homeless than young men in the general population. Black youth are over three times more likely than non-Black youth to be currently experiencing homelessness, and they are 75% more likely than non-Black youth to have experienced homelessness in the past 12 months. This situation has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Twenty-two percent of foster youth in California experienced homelessness because of COVID-19; the housing situations of 68% of the youth were negatively impacted by the pandemic. (Alternative Family Services)

Please consider making a donation that would help our efforts to support some of the 15,000 transition-age youth in California’s foster care system throughout the year.