Away From Home: Youth Experiences of Institutional Placements in Foster Care

Institutional placements in foster care are out-of-home, non-family placements where some foster youth are sent to live. Each year, of the hundreds of thousands of youth in foster care, over 43,000 live in institutional placements. These placements disproportionately impact Black youth, other youth of color, older youth, and pregnant and parenting teens.

Due to calls to reckon with longstanding institutionalized racism, the spread of COVID-19 through institutions, concern over the use of for...