We can support children’s future
if all adults band together.

After graduation from high school and leaving from child care facilities or foster parents

Many of such children have to become financially and mentally independent and make their own living after graduation.
Their journeys to become independent are by no means easy. Children have to make big decisions, such as finding a job or going on to university, with full of hopes or hesitations, or sometimes with feelings of resignation in their mind.

Rate of enrollment in higher educational institutions

After graduating from high school, 33.1% of children living in child care facilities go on to higher education instituitions, such as universities, junior colleges, professional schools, etc., and 58.8% of them get jobs. In case of children living with foster parents, 58.5% of them go on to schools, and 33.3% are employed. Compared to the fact that 74.2% of average high school graduates go on to higher educational instituitions, we can see that enrollment rate of such children is extremely low. In recent years, however, the number of children in "social care" who go to higher educational institutions has been gradually increasing. 
*Data are taken from the website of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare data collection "Toward the Promotion of Social Nurturing" (March 31, 2022)

Necessity to let children have the power to become independent before leaving "social care"

Information about how to go to hospitals, keep themselves groomed in business situations, wear suits neatly, maintain financial stability, and behave in a right manner at ceremonial occasions before thier independence would be a great supports when they enter into society.