Ensuring youth aging out of the foster care system age out with safe, secure, stable housing, sustainable employment and a support team.
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Together We Rise is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization comprised of motivated young adults and former foster youth.
A place for foster care alumni to meet and share news, promote discussion, compare their experiences and exchange ideas about how to improve the child welfare system.
The #1 Social Network Improving The Lives Of Foster Youth. Members Are: Foster Parents, Social Workers, Volunteers.
FosterClub is an online community providing youth a safe place to obtain facts about foster care, read inspirational stories, and find support from their peers.
Bringing together professionals & aged out youth acting collaboratively to support youth whom are or will be aged out of foster care by providing an individualized, tangible connection to community resources, information & advice designed to encourage & assist foster care youth in achieving self-sufficiency.
These graphs include the percent of youth who completed high school equivalency, percent of youth with housing arrangements, percent of youth who obtained employment, and percent of youth with permanency connection.
This brief describes the characteristics and economic well-being of young people aging out of foster care who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB). It also compares their economic self-sufficiency to that of their heterosexual peers also aging out of care.
We evaluate the effects of a 2010 Social Security Administration policy change that allows such youths to apply for SSI payments 60 days earlier than the previous policy allowed. The change provides additional time for processing claims before the applicant ages out of the foster care system.