Scott Foundation

Education of Self | Selfless Service | Career | Transition

Serving AZ Foster Youth

With a focus on developing inner wealth, we spark the greatness in Arizona’s Foster Youth to help them realize their potential while inspiring them to live united and with purpose.

Our Ability To Make An Impact

Data-Grounded Solutions Inspire action

The world around us is a reflection of the world within us. More than simply a place, Scott Foundation is an intentional community serving Arizona Foster Youth. It awakens the best in the human spirit and cultivates the extraordinary potential that exists in us all.

Seeking a more peaceful and loving place, we emotionally guide kids to make better choices through selfless service. We offer intuitively guided sessions, developmental workshops and transformational retreats that are unique in the Country.

With a focus on developing inner wealth, we promote conscious awareness, emotional freedom, spiritual development, and authentic expression.

We've expanded our focus to include 8 to 12-year old's and continue to serve 13 to 17-years old's. We help these young people gain practical skills for life but more importantly to develop a healthier sense of self, compassionate hearts and purposeful career paths.

Our programs develop each young persons self-esteem, self-acceptance, self-confidence and offer other personalized guidance as well as practical life-skills training so these young adults transition into real life much better equipped. Listening to the kids urgency of what hurts their heart the most in our world, we offer experiences in 8 different pillars of service and exciting vocations. Some careers are new, exciting and are ones they never imagined.

The young people, who experience just a taste of what we offer, and are forced to leave for one reason or another, generally still stay connected to us via more than one vehicle we provide. All of our kids gain the benefit of a loving community and extended family experience.

The Scott Foundation lifeline is one that doesn't disappear, even when teens "age out" of the system.

Industry Research

Empowering everyone to make a data-driven decision, we invite you to experience our interactive analytical journey, that reflects the significance of the problem and our measurable value.

The link below presents a visualization and interactive dashboard which provides an easy way to understand insights that are based on rapidly changing data.

Interactive Datastory

WHEN FOSTER TEENS TURN 18

For most young people turning 18, it's an exciting time, a right of passage into adulthood with graduation around the corner and many looking forward to college or an exciting career on the horizon. They have confidence and enthusiasm. But, for teens in the foster care system, it's different. When these young people turn 18 and "age out" of the system, this is the result:

Only 54% will have a high school diploma
20% will become homeless within a year
25% will become incarcerated within two year
Just 50% will be underemployed by age 24
Only 3% will obtain a college degree
71% of all girls will become pregnant before age 21

Source: Casey Family Programs

Reactive Solutions

Reactive rather than pro-active, what foster care provides is basic needs. But these young people, with the backgrounds they've had, need more. Still, no state system seems to have the answers, so fires continue to be put out with funding. On average, they spend $549,890+ per-year per child.

Our Proactive Approach

Conversely, Scott Foundation's approach is proactive. The young people who choose to participate in our Masterclass program gain the benefit of a loving community and extended family experience. Their horizons are expanded with exposure to 8 different pillars of service and vocations that average 100+ experiences per-year. Some careers are new, exciting and are ones they never imagined.

We provide programs to develop each young persons self-esteem, self-acceptance, self-confidence and offer other personalized guidance as well as practical life-skills training so these young adults transition into real life much better equipped.

The young people, who experience just a taste of what we offer, and are forced to leave for one reason or another, generally still stay connected to us via more than one vehicle we provide. The Scott Foundation lifeline is one that doesn't disappear, even when teens "age out" of the system.