There are over 439,000 children currently in the US foster care system. These children enter the system for a variety of reasons ranging from abuse and neglect to lack of a safe place at a point of crisis. Less than 7% of children enter the foster system due to their own behavior.

The goal is to find permanence for these children as soon as possible. However, the role of social worker in the foster system is often a thankless job and turnover is very high. When a child has only 1 social worker, they find permanence almost 75% of the time. However, when turnover occurs this can drop to less than 20%.

How tough is this job?…See this video below from one our partners to understand some of the really tough things social workers deal with.

This year the funds from March Gladness after ROI expenses will be used to fund charities in the US that are working either to strengthen families so children do not go into foster care, or organizations that are working in the area of foster care.

To learn more about the vision, please see these slides shared recently at SuperSaturday.

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