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SALT LAKE CITY — Today you can help children in foster care. Call 801-575-HOPE or donate online via adoptex.org.
You can see many stories of the children in foster care that KSL has highlighted here.
20,000 children age out of foster care every year without being adopted. Your donation helps a child. Adoption Exchange has connected almost 8,300 children since 1983.
Facts:
- On average boys wait longer than girls.
- The average age of a child in Utah who is adopted from foster care is 5.2 years old.
- 46 percent of children who are adopted from foster care are adopted by their foster parents.
- 9 percent of children age out of foster care in Utah every year.
- 83 percent of children in Utah spend less than 12 months in foster care with fewer than 2 placements.
- In 2015, 4,727 children were in foster care in Utah. 1,587 of those were over the age of 14.
- 604 children were adopted out of Utah’s foster care system last year.
- 20,000 children age out of foster care every year without being adopted. (Nationally)
- 50% of children who age out will be involved in substance abuse.
- 17% of females will become pregnant within the first 2 years.
- 40% will experience homelessness.
- 60% of males will be convicted of a crime.
- 60% will be chronically unemployed.
- The Adoption Exchange has connected 8,300 children since opening in 1983
- You do not need to own your own home or have a large income to adopt from foster care.
- Single parents can adopt.
- Adopting from foster care really does not cost anything.
- Children are never too old to be adopted.
