Store & Café

The Center:

• Offers multiple paid internships for foster youth who are ready to work but lack the skills and experience needed to land a job.  Once these internships are completed youth have the support of an employment specialist to help them find an additional internship if needed, and/or to support them as they transition to permanent employment. 

• Affords young adults aging out of foster care the opportunity to stretch their dollar while purchasing items they need to establish their new independent lives. 

• Generates revenue that goes directly back to the programs at David & Margaret to support foster youth; renewing hope and inspiring change. 

Most young adults are not quite ready to be out on their own, but youth with a history of foster care face unique challenges such as: 

• Nearly half of foster youth have learning disabilities or delays.

• Only 58% of young people in foster care graduate from high school.

• Only 3% graduate from college.
• Foster youth do not have the support and guidance of a family to help them navigate the road to adulthood.
• Half of youth who have aged out of foster care end up homeless or incarcerated*

Dave and Maggie's Center is a valuable resource for youth as they transition into adulthood. 

*Statistics from Youth.gov