• About one-third of STRIVE graduates become STRIVE staff members.
  • The average recidivism rate among all ex-offenders is about 50 percent within one year. STRIVE program participants have a recidivism rate of just 15 percent representing an enormous social and fiscal benefit to our communities.
  • The Atlanta high school graduation rate was only 44% based on U.S. Department of Education statistics for 2004-05, and the largest numbers of students are lost at 9th grade.
  • Georgia has one of the highest dropout rate among 16-24 year olds at 22.1% (over 270,000 dropouts).
  • There are nearly 4,000 youth in foster care between the ages of 14-21 across the state, and 400 youth aging out of the foster care system each year. According to nationwide statistics, 46% of emancipating youth lack a high school diploma, 25% experience homelessness, and 42% become teen parents.
  • Georgia has climbed to 4th among the states in rates of incarceration, and number one in the number of adults having some involvement with the criminal justice system.
  • As of April 2010, there were 25,082 parolees in the state of Georgia, including 882 convicted in DeKalb; 1,353 convicted in Cobb; and 1,054 convicted in Fulton.
  • In 2009, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections, 20,935 inmates were released from incarceration back into the community.
  • Across the state of Georgia, there are also large numbers of youth offenders returning to the community, including 207 aged 19 and under and 6,618 aged 20-29 in 2009 alone.
  • Last year 26,517 children turned 18 and left the foster care system.
  • Only 17% of eighteen year-olds that leave the foster care system become completely self-supporting after discharge.
  • Children raised in foster care without ever having been adopted have a 40% chance of ending up in prison or on welfare.
  • Almost 60% of females discharged from foster care give birth to their first child within a few years of their "graduation".
  • Former foster care children are 3 times more likely to become homeless after discharge.
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