Teens Group Homes and Aging Out
Every year, 20,000 young people exit care with no family, leading to high rates of homelessness, joblessness, and suicide. This crisis reflects a failure of the state to keep children safe and secure their right to a family. Our solutions address a multitude of problems that prevent children from being placed in loving, adoptive homes. We also work to ensure that teens who age out of care have the support and resources they need to succeed.
The problem…
How we’re solving it…
February 6, 2026News & Press ReleasesFunding Will Help Prevent Homelessness, Incarceration, and Lifelong Instability Among Vulnerable Teens Phoenix, Ariz. - The Center for the Rights of Abused Children applauds congressional approval of $30 million in funding for the [...]
December 11, 2025News & Press ReleasesPhoenix, Ariz. - Today the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent letters to 39 governors calling for immediate action to end the practice [...]
November 17, 2025News & Press ReleasesAnaiah Walker entered the Arizona foster care system at age 13. Before her 14th birthday, she was trafficked by adults posing as teenagers online. By age 15, she ran away from several group [...]
May 1, 2025News & Press ReleasesOn Friday Governor Katie Hobbs signed Senate Bill 1333 (SB 1333)—a life-saving measure, created by the Center for the Rights of Abused Children, that will help more children transition from institutional group homes into safe families.
August 13, 2024Research & ReportsProblem Nationally, over 90% of children in foster care leave the child welfare system via reunification with biological parents, guardianship, kinship placements, or adoption.1 The remaining children – approximately 9% of teens and [...]
June 28, 2024News & Press Releases, Television & VideoThis new initiative is projected to reduce aging out of foster care by 34 percent.
June 23, 2024News & Press ReleasesMore than 400,000 children in the U.S. are living in foster care. Each year, nearly 20,000 become adults and are left without the support of a guardian or the government. John Yang speaks [...]
June 17, 2024News & Press Releases– Yesterday, the Arizona legislature passed a measure, brought by the Center for the Rights of Abused Children, to help abused children at the greatest risk of aging out of the foster care system find safe and loving homes. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is anticipated to sign the bill. House Bill 2704, establishes the Foster Youth Permanency Project Team within the Department of Child Safety.
January 30, 2024Events & TestimonyThis bill requires calculating and applying partial credits when a high-school-age foster youth must transfer schools according to a best interest determination. The state board of education must develop guidelines for calculating partial [...]
- January 24, 2024Events & Testimony
SOUL Family Legal Permanency Option In-Person Testimony - John Monroe, Catalyst on behalf of the Center for the Rights of Abused Children House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care Introduction Chair Concannon, [...]