As if being removed from your family isn't traumatic enough, imagine moving away from everything you know. For foster kids in the Bay Area, this happens far more often than you think.
, this is one of the biggest problems facing the foster system in the Bay Area today.
"In Marin County alone, we send 40% of our foster youth out of our county," Hurd said. "I'm a foster parent myself. And I can say that lots of my children who have been removed from their families have gone through an extreme amount of trauma. So you can only imagine what a kid goes through when they're removed for the first time, let alone removed from their home, their school, and moved into a different county, and possibly really far away from their home.
The good news is the number of foster youth from San Francisco has dropped during the last 10 years. In January 2010 there were 1,385 total foster youth and that number today has more than halved. Yet, the percentage of youth from San Francisco placed in the county stayed at a similar number - 41.4% in 2010. So that means the number of homes available has reduced drastically for the percentage to remain constant despite a big reduction of children needing foster homes there.
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