This July 2012 issue brief provides an overview and assessment of current data resources and general trends related to the national and statewide (DE) population who are “aging out” of foster care.
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(2012) Casey Family Programs has a fact sheet with a breakdown of the numbers of foster youth in the U.S.
Each year the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program provides $140 million for independent living services to assist youth as they age out of foster care and enter adulthood. This report describes how states are using these funds to provide housing assistance and explores how the assistance provided through this program fits in with other sources of housing assistance available.
In this document, Chapin Hall summarizes what is known about the housing needs and outcomes common to young people who age out of foster care.
In this study, homeless emerging adults who had not aged out of foster care were compared to peers who were homeless and aged out of foster care.
This factsheet provides the most recent national statistical estimates for children and youth in foster care from fiscal year (FY) 2012 and also provides earlier data from FY 2003 to allow for some estimate of trends over time.
This infographic represents the results of the 2013 Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative / Success Beyond 18 study about aging out of foster care.
This research states that have expanded foster care eligibility to age 21, two ways youth are eligible to remain in care past age 18 are by working at least 80 hours per month, or by participating in a program that promotes employment or removes employment barriers.
Senate report language accompanying HUD’s 2009 Appropriation directed the Secretary to “conduct an evaluation of the housing models that are most effective in preventing and ending homelessness for youth aged 16-24.” HUD chose to focus this research effort on the housing needs of the over 25,000 youth who “age out” of the foster care system each year.
This brief focuses on the importance of evaluating housing programs for this population, the barriers to evaluating them, and how the field can move forward to build the evidence base in this area.