In June, Fostering Memories will have the opportunity to photograph foster youth graduating high school at the Independent Living Skills (ILS) ceremony.
America’s Promise Alliance quotes a Chapin Hall study which found that just 58% of foster youth will graduate high school by age 19 (compared to 87% of all youth nationally). Given their often transitory and possibly traumatic upbringing, education is just one of many hardships that these youth face so it is a BIG DEAL for them to graduate. We’re happy to be a part of this happy occasion!
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About fosteringmemories
Fostering Memories is a San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Fostering Memories is dedicated to providing foster children, growing up in San Diego County group homes and facilities, with photographs and scrapbooks to permanently document the ages and stages of their lives. We all have the need to preserve childhood memories. Abused and neglected children who have been removed from their families, often do not have pictures, scrapbooks or even a person who can remind them of their childhood experiences. Now these children will be able to create photographic records that reflect their experiences and memories of growing up.
