An OFA scholarship student in California passed along some stats on the trajectory for youth aging out of foster care when no one steps in to help them:

The aforementioned student, a former foster youth and child abuse survivor, just graduated from college this month — a milestone that she is proud of but chooses not to celebrate overtly. We cherish her hard work and accomplishments, and she has expressed profound gratitude for OFA’s assistance more times than we can count….but that, understandably, is not the focus of her latest message.

“If my family could pull through and support me whole-heartedly, I might not see a difference between myself and many other students,” she says. “That’s what the 3 percent statistic above means to me.”