The challenges of foster care are great.
Foster parents need our help.
Foster children deserve our help.
TSC is playing our part by creating innovative outdoor spaces where the foster care community can heal, grow, belong, and find hope.
Foster Children
The trauma experienced by foster children impacts their lives in many significant, long-lasting ways.
Foster Parents
The struggles that foster parents face are great, making recruiting & retaining them increasingly difficult (approximately 50% drop out within the first year).
Foster Care System
The foster care system is stretched thin addressing the basic, but critical needs of the children and others involved. Additional support is critical on many fronts.
Community-at-Large
Generally speaking, people are unaware of the needs of the foster care community; and the perceived or actual barriers to serve are high. So many often don’t.
The statistics about Foster Care tell an alarming story.
The children and those on the front lines need our help.
A glimpse into the overwhelming challenges of the Foster Care Community is demonstrated by just a sampling of data focused on foster children. But there’s so much more to their stories.
(Data ranges from 2019-2021; sources below)
The stats are difficult to wrap your head around.
But the stories of what these children go through are crushing.
Producers Nathanael & Christina Matanick created the ReMoved short films below with the intent “to bring light to the often unknown subjects of Foster Care.”
Like Tire Swing Collective, their goal is to “raise awareness and inspire change.”
Watching these videos will give you just a glimpse of what foster children experience.
ReMoved #1 | The Original
ReMoved #2 | Remember My Story
ReMoved #3 | Love is Never Wasted
Will you help change a child’s story?
How can you help?
Get involved. Listen. Learn. Support families who tirelessly care for foster children. Support organizations who serve the foster care community & the system as a whole. Consider becoming a foster parent yourself.
Data Sources: Foster Care | Sample Statistics