Each year, Just in Time for Foster Youth mobilizes a caring community to help over 850 transition age youth (18-26) with resources and relationships to become capable, confident and connected. We meet emergency needs, fill gaps in knowledge and experience, enhance job skills, and build confidence, resilience and well-being through connections to over 600 volunteers and former foster youth staff.
Pivot, Inc. is a nonprofit community organization that advocates, educates, intervenes and counsels youth and families to make a positive difference in their lives. What we do: Meet housing & basic needs, provide education & job assistance, prevention & intervention, and therapeutic care.
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.)
College: FOFK provides storage containers filled with school supplies and all the essentials needed to transition into dormitory living. FOFK continually works to seek out opportunities to build our scholarship program. Careers: FOFK is developing training programs to guide with social skill, etiquette, and confidence building. We are bridging foster youths with employment opportunities.
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.
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…
Acres of Hope is a residential ministry to homeless single mothers, and their young children. We are a forever family to foster youth who have aged out of the system. We help by giving housing, counseling, food, and transportation for up to two years.