River Jordan Inc focuses on helping transition age foster youth become responsible and productive members of society through our Community Transitional housing program, Pre-Aging Out Foster Care Recovery Coaching, which also includes life skill training, and the best practice Fostering Success training model. (See also Foster Care Recovery Network in the AOI database.)
The VISION Program will provide programming that challenges youth to think critically about the choices they are making in life and the outcome of habitual negativity and having poor role models.
Journey House provides services exclusively to former foster youth in; Housing, Education, Employment, and Independent Living Counseling. Journey House is not a residential program, however, most youth continue as program participants because of the support and guidance that they receive as they transition out of foster care and beyond.
The CLP is NYEPs residential 9-18 month 12 component independent living program targeting young women 18-24 who would otherwise be home. The program is designed to teach, provide opportunities to practice, and hold youth residents accountable to program goals: high school graduation, living wage employment and independent housing.
Assists at-risk and aging-out foster-care youth (18-26) to transition to and sustain, connected independence. We provide emergency and start-up assistance, case management, life skills training, and connection programs to long term sponsors and mentors.
At Cake4Kids, we bake and deliver custom birthday cakes for foster children and at risk youth. We aim to raise their self-esteem with this seemingly simple gift on their special day. We currently support the following counties: Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, East Sacramento, San Diego. We deliver smiles one birthday cake at…
FFCA is a critical lifeline for youth in foster care and alumni ages 15-24. We provide leadership training, laptop donations, educate child welfare staff and work on the legislative and judicial levels to improve the foster care system.
Refuge Waco seeks to provide innovative solutions to current gaps in the foster care system by addressing the immediate needs of at-risk youth through mentorship, housing, education, and awareness.
We provide resources for youth, single moms who have experienced foster care or homelessness. We have a resource center in Mesa where anyone involved in DCS can come get free food boxes, clothing or other resources. We are in the process of building tiny homes in Phoenix where these youth can live after aging out of foster care.
Youth Connections is a resource center for youth 16-26, who are currently in or have aged out of foster care or state custody. We offer financial education classes, resume writing, tutoring for HISET tests & peer support groups. Participants have access to laundry facilities & showers, by appointment, and can pick up personal hygiene & small household items from the…