Councilmember Joseph questions foster youth aging out and college enrollment data

And back to Councilmember Joseph.

Thank you.

Real quick, two more questions.

Over the past five years, how many youth have aged out of foster care annually, and what percentage of those youth are enrolled in college?

So I don't have the past five year.

I can give you,

We had in calendar year 2024, 420 non-permanency discharges.

So those are youth leaving foster care.

And in calendar 2025, we had 383.

So I'll have to get the other information and then also crosswalk that with our college choice data.

We do know that when college choice launched in 2022, we had 200 young people.

And I believe the spring semester of 2026, we had 471 youth in college.

But I will have to crosswalk.

The exits with who was in college at the time.

No problem.

For foster youth with foster care, for students with foster care experience who did not complete college, what academic career re-engagement supports are available for them for re-enroll or transition into employment pathways?

So for young people that are in college specifically, we work very closely with New York Foundling.

They do our college support services program, and they provide, in addition to supporting around the financial issues, the wraparound academic.

advisement.

So for those that are going to be struggling, let's say they're on probation, they're providing additional support.

If they do have to leave school, they still, if they're in care, still have their case planning team, they'll have their fair futures coach, and then we have a team at ACS.

So we do work to re-engage.

There have been young people that have been in the college choice program, discontinued, and now are looking at our career choice program, which launched this fiscal year.

So maybe they're going to take a different path.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Cheers.