Provide young people in foster care or recently aged out and who are attending college a lap top and gift cards.
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YNHS is a Community Health Services, providing medical, dental, behavioral health services, housing and homeless services. Targeted services for youth includes “The Space”, our LGBTQ Youth Resource Center , and the BESTY House, a residential transitional housing program for women age 18-23 interested in work experiences and/or continuing education.
Generation Texas clarifies the steps students and parents need to take on the path to college and career education. Generation Texas provides information about taking the right classes and tests, to applying to colleges, and then finding the money to pay for school.
Great Expectations is a nationally recognized program that helps Virginia’s foster youth earn the postsecondary credentials they need to achieve an independent and successful life. Great Expectations is currently available at 18 of Virginia’s Community Colleges.
Sanctuary Palm Springs is a home for nonminor dependent LGBT youth in foster care. The home is a place of safety, support, and self-responsibility where each foster-youth resident can learn the life skills needed to become an independent, self-sufficient adult.
We provide certified Life Skills & Educational Mentors to help foster care youth and young adults make a successful transition into adulthood by carrying out activities of daily living. Educational mentors serve as role models and assist youth in developing skills and habits needed for success in school.
The Foster Coalition elevates the national consciousness about foster care through PR, social media & journalism. It offers a central repository of resources & best practice programs for foster youth, foster parents and those who wish to support children in care. Help develop & support programs that create foster youth jobs & life skills training
GR24 is located in Sebastian County, AR, and serves as the only apartment-based independent living facility in AR for foster youth – ages 18 & older – with both housing and life-skills training. Located in a 24-unit apartment complex, GR24 provides a safe and stable housing option with an emphasis on life-skills training.
AAI provides out-client assistance to current or recently released foster care youth. The following are services provided: Liaison between youth and school/college, referral to job training programs, assistance in locating permanent housing, weekly individual life skills counseling, events focusing on life skills development, ongoing life skills development groups.
Inspire offers former foster and homeless youth the opportunity to attend college or vocational school full time while living in low cost safe and stable housing. We also provide one on one mentoring, life skills classes and many other support services.