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.
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Women Aspire’s mission is to provide safe shared housing, mentorship, access to educational opportunities and a healthy lifestyle for women and their children.
Aspiranet’s Transitional Aged Youth programs are a bridge between foster care and independence. We are dedicated to helping our youth develop necessary life skills, self-reliance, and confidence so they can achieve their goals for the future. We collaborate with a statewide network of partners to ensure that youth who are aging out of foster care are equipped to navigate the hurdles of…
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.
Knowing the challenges homeless teens face, supporting them every step of the way and uniting in a movement to help them off the street. Through a combination of support strategies, including educational programs, job training and placement, medical services, mental health and substance abuse counseling, legal aid and beyond, we help young people embrace the great promise of their lives, overcome…
Many young adults who transition from foster care to adult life on their own experience difficulties. We make sure those new adults are ready for managing their education or employment, and that they can achieve their goals of self-sufficiency.
New Avenues for Youth has a complete set of services to address youth homelessness that includes: drop-in day services, the East Connect and Youth Opportunity Center, education, PAVE job training, PDX-Connect, Avenues to College, SMYRC, and housing.
This exploratory research was developed to help inform the conversation about foster youth success by assessing possible factors that helped former foster youth achieve an important benchmark: enrolling in college. (Master’s Thesis, University of California, Sacramento)
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.