First In Readiness and Self-Sufficiency Training
Where young adults prepare for a successful future after foster care by managing and operating a manufacturing and distribution center for high-quality outdoor wood furniture.
- That 500,000 children and young adults across this country are in the foster care system for reasons of abandonment, abuse, neglect, hardships and/or overall lack of support?
- That approximately, 20,000 young adults, annually leave the foster care system without vocational or life management skills, or a realistic plan for long-term success after foster care?
- That this lack of preparation for young adults who are preparing to leave the foster care system is Detrimental?
- That because of their circumstances, teenagers leaving the foster care system are at a greater risk of being unemployed, unemployable, homeless, or worse, transferred to those other public systems e.g., welfare or criminal justice system?
- That 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children?
- That 80% of prison inmates have been through the foster care system?
- That children in foster care do not have traditional support systems, that many of us take for granted?
- That F.I.R.S.T. Contractors Inc. was established specifically to prepare young adults for greater success after foster care?
- That you too can help young adults prepare for long-term success after foster, by supporting F.I.R.S.T. Contractors Inc.?