The facts behind the Village.
What happens to young adults when support ends, in work, school and housing, and what changes when it does not.
young people have aged out of foster care in the United States. That is about one every 35 minutes.
Estimate. It spreads the 2024 total of 15,020 evenly across the year. Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT Data Center.
At 21, the gap is already wide.
These figures follow young people who were in foster care at 17 and were surveyed again at 21.
Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT Data Center (National Youth in Transition Database).
Able to work. Rarely hired.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics, 2025.
Source: Drexel University, National Autism Indicators Report (2015).
Where we start.
teens and young adults age out of Georgia foster care each year.
Georgia Department of Human Services, reported by CBS News Atlantaleave Georgia's system without stable housing.
Reported by WABEVillagers in our first Georgia cohort, planned for 2027.
Prime Village planSupport costs less than its absence.
Our model projects $3 to $7 in public value for every $1 invested, through earnings and taxes gained and the costs of homelessness, emergency care and public assistance avoided.
Prime Village projection, drawing on published foster care cost studies. It is a forecast, not a measured result.