Currently, over 510,000 American children are in foster care. These children were taken away when their families were in crisis and could no longer take care of them. One of the most challenging issues is there aren't enough foster families to take them in. There isn't enough money to provide them the things every child needs. There aren't enough people to help them, mentor them, or to simply cheer them up and give them hope for the future. If nothing changes by the year 2020, 22,500 children will die of abuse or neglect before their fifth birthday. More than 10.5 million children will spend some time in foster care. More than 300,000 children will age out of our foster care system, some in poor health and many unprepared for success in higher education, technical college or the workforce. Every year, approximately 18,000 youth will emancipate — or "age‐out"— from the foster care system when they reach age 18 or finish high school. Youth in foster care often do not get the help they need with high school completion, employment, accessing health care, continued educational opportunities, housing and transitional living arrangements.