LAUNCHING tomorrow’s world changers

• Over 80,000 children age 11+ (41%) will age out of foster care without family, belonging, or built in support.

• What follows is predictable: homelessness, exploitation, justice system involvement, early reproduction, lifetimes of instability because they aren’t getting what they need yet.

• These aren’t accidents. These are gaps of dire consequence.

• These gaps cost billions in child welfare. Up to nine trillion across society. The human cost is immeasurable.

• Launchpad exposes how these gaps in understanding become big blocks that limit potential, impacting most of us. Foster youth are hit hardest.

• This proposal to Reimagine Child Welfare offers nine of the missing elements to support a successful launch in one model. (*As referenced when applied across a national annual cohort of 15,000 to 18,000 youth corresponds to $3 billion to $3.6 billion in avoided costs for each year's group, even before considering secondary benefits like increased tax revenue and civic participation.)

• Bridging these gaps saves 94% compared to other development models; providing greater reach and more comprehensive coverage ensuring better outcomes for a fraction of the cost.

• Investments build trk (The Remarkable Kingdom): the load bearing environment that gives kids without embedded support what all children need to launch well.

• Fund the build to support these efforts by investing in trk.

• Because when the blocks move, potential gets released.

• These kids don’t have the luxury of waiting.