September 27, 2011 | 11:39 AM | By

“D.C. Group Helps Foster Children Succeed After Emancipation”

Many of the children in D.C.’s foster care system are African American. During fiscal year 2010, almost all of the 129 children who were adopted were black, according to the Child Welfare League [PDF]. In 2010, 2,066 D.C. children were in foster care.


When D.C.’s children in foster care reach age 18, many begin to leave the system in a process called emancipation. Without continued support, some of these so-called ‘foster kids’ will fail as they become adults; but one local group is helping provide them with a leg up.

— wamu.org