Our mission is to provide financial and mental health support to foster care youth in California.
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A resource guide for youth in northeast Kansas, this book describes benefits, services, and opportunities for young people aging out of foster care. The guide also details how to open a bank account, how to apply for a job, how to get an apartment, etc.
Excellerate is an Educational Life Skills Program that Serves Teenage Foster Care Children. Excellerate provides these young people a chance at a great life through mentoring, instruction and empowerment.
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.
Impact Living Services (ILS) provides comprehensive supportive services for foster youth 17-21 years of age. ILS has apartments in Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Harrisonburg. ILS promotes interdependence as a core belief in helping youth achieve their educational, vocational and financial goals. Interdependence is an idea of “mutual dependence between things” (i.e., community, friends, staff, DSS and counselors).
We give youth the support they need to meet the day-to-day demands of adult life. We pay for their Driver’s Education so they can learn to drive safely and legally and earn their license. Youth-led and adult-supported, RYAC provides mentors and professionals to teach life skills.
Since 1990, NMCAN has been leveraging community partnerships and volunteerism to improve children and youth’s experiences in foster care. Today, we have grown to authentically engage young people impacted by the foster care and/or juvenile justice systems to improve their transition to adulthood.
Level 1 will introduce key concepts regarding living skills, social skills, financial responsibility, leadership and spiritual empowerment. The gift for Level 1 graduates will be a computer, Microsoft Office and virus protection software. All Level 1 students will automatically be accepted into Level 2 which will add new programming in addition to additional information on car ownership, and other repeat…
Through the My First Place model, HopeWell master-leases apartments and sublets to program participants. Young people meet weekly with staff to get consistent, focused counseling. The triad supporting their development comprises a Youth Advocate (social worker), Education and Employment Specialist, and Housing Specialist, who together with the young person create an Action Plan with short- and long-term goals.
Serenity Living Transitional Home (SLTH) is a 501c3 non-profit organization located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides youth and family services to at-risk residence in poverty-stricken communities. SLTH also offers young women between the ages of 18 and 23 with a safe place to live and learn. Qualifying youth will reside in Allegheny County and must be at risk for homelessness or out-of-home placement. Youth experiencing truancy or having involvement with a DHS child-serving system, will also be considered.