MassNFCA creates community and opportunity for current and former foster youth through education, employment, service and leadership. In addition to our regional events for foster care alumni across Massachusetts, we also have an online community called ‘MassNFCA Connect’ that connects with our statewide database of resources for alumni of all ages.
The Concho Valley Transition Center is always there to help. We offer advice and emotional support in resolving problems, refer participants to appropriate community programs, help them apply for housing, college entrance and financial aid, and give them limited assistance with in-kind donations and cash.
Operation SafeHouse with community support, provides emergency shelter, intervention, and outreach services to runaway, homeless, and other youth in crisis. SafeHouse offers youth positive alternatives to becoming victims of the streets.
We empower teenagers to transform the negative forces in their lives and communities into positive action. Using the performing arts and community action as vehicles, our teenagers learn to build relationships across differences, resolve conflicts without violence, take on their responsibility to others, and lead.
At Breaking Ground, home is a support system. Our supportive housing has a full spectrum of wraparound supports that help people recover from the trauma of homelessness, achieve stability, and rebuild their lives in housing.
The experience of aging out of the foster system is often a humbling one. Although many young adults are eager to exit the foster system and enter adulthood, they lack the safety net family and other support systems typically provide. Our older youth services program is designed to bridge this gap. Our case managers work to help these young adults…
Life 360 is a year round life skills mentoring program for Arizona foster children who are at least 15 years old. Together, the mentors and foster children focus on basic skills like money management, household management, planning for college, budgeting, interviewing for jobs, job skills, nutrition and meal planning.
We provide Independent Living Services for young adults (ages 18-23) aging out of foster care.
The Village, a Transitional Housing Program, provides young adults who have “aged out” of the foster care system, the opportunity to complete their education and enhance their independent living skills before moving and living on their own.
The FLITE Center is the only one-stop resource center in the state of Florida that connects youth aging out of the foster care system with a full range of services for a successful transition. The FLITE Center offers education, housing assistance, employment coaching, peer mentoring, and life skills training to approximately 1,000 young adults in over 10,000 visits a year.