EDSI (Educational Data Systems, Inc.) is a national workforce development, talent solutions and consulting company with a passion for helping people and companies in transition. EDSI works with regions, employers and jobseekers to overcome their most challenging obstacles.
Results indicate that Michigan foster care alumni had similar or worse outcomes than their peers in other alumni studies, and significantly worse outcomes than their peers in the general population in the areas of mental health, substance dependence, and education.
The Independent Living (IL) program empowers older teens in foster care to grow and develop through specialized programs that build on each person’s strengths. The program is designed to help them learn to live independently as adults.
The mission of Our House, a Washtenaw County nonprofit, is to help young people (age 14-25) successfully transition from foster care to adulthood. Our vision is that they become successful, self-sufficient and can live independently with confidence.
This is the first study to date that has examined the experience of former foster youth, the aging out process, and their experiences of hope through the lens of positive youth development, which holds that contexts can be altered to improve youth outcomes, and how such changes in context may actually create changes within the person. (Union Institute & University)
Fostering Success Michigan is a statewide initiative that aims to increase access and success in higher education and post-college careers for students with experience in foster care.
Lakeshore LifeWorks is a faith based transitional housing program for the aging out foster care and struggling youth population (18-21) in Ottawa County. Mission: “Restoring Lives by Providing Safe Homes and Grace Filled Relationships”
The Fostering Futures Scholarship, a State of Michigan program, provides scholarships to young adults who have experienced foster care. Awards are paid directly to the students’ institution to assist with unmet need in one or more of the following categories: Tuition/Fees, Room/Board, and Books/Supplies.
Stars Training Academy, a division of Stars Behavioral Health Group, collaborates with community agencies across North America to provide enriched training and customized consultation to achieve high fidelity and sustainable implementation of evidence-supported and evidence-based practices. The Stars Training Academy serves as the purveyor of the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model.