According to data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), 46% of the nation’s youth age 17 and under report experiencing at least one trauma.
THE LOST & FOUND INSTITUTE
THE LOST & FOUND INSTITUTE
System & Trauma impacted people need opportunities to heal.
True liberation and transformation starts with having a chance to change and heal on an individual level. Only then will we be able to become a healthy organizer and advocate who can walk alongside others in their journey.
Our Core Issues
The Lost & Found Institute works alongside children, youth, and adults who have been impacted by multiple, overlapping systems of harm. These infographics highlight the core issues our community navigates every day — including foster care, homelessness, juvenile justice involvement, human trafficking, domestic violence, and mental & behavioral health challenges. Each issue represents not just a statistic, but a lived reality shaped by trauma, survival, and systems that were never built with our people in mind.
We share this information to help our community, partners, and supporters understand the conditions young people are surviving — and to illuminate why healing-centered, lived experience–led leadership is essential to creating real change.
The system and the government was created for the people and by the people but not our people.
– Aaron Toleafoa
