Transitioning out of foster care is a significant challenge—it requires you to grow up. Fast. We can help make that transition a little easier, and a little less scary, by helping figure out how to live independently.
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Center for Champions helps mentors make connections with kids that need hope to discover God’s purpose for their lives. When you invest in someone, life transformation occurs in both your mentee and in you. You both find deeper purpose and community.
Youth will complete a formal interview for a position at the coffee shop, which will also prepare them for future job opportunities. Once hired, they will enter begin a 9-month program where they will set personal and professional goals. They will meet with management, case workers and mentors throughout their employment to ensure they are reaching their goals.
Along with housing some of the many resources another journey inc. would like to offer to include job skills support, connections to educational opportunities, discipleship, life skills classes, and faith-based mentoring.
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.
Our mission is to create intergenerational community and musical excellence for youth with diverse needs. SOAR! Youth and Adult Choir provides a safe, nurturing, consistent environment for youth across the Denver Metro region. Adults in the choir serve as models, mentors, and giving compassionate musical and emotional support.
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).
Founded in 2001, Silver Lining empowers foster youth in Greater Boston to flourish through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills. We provide long term one-to-one mentoring and life skills development for young people who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Our volunteer mentors are often the only adults in our youth’s…
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.