This brief highlights actions that child welfare systems can take to prevent young people who have experienced foster care from becoming homeless, regardless of how they exited. This is the seventh in a series of briefs from Voices of Youth Count.
Today, CYDC provides programs reaching over 1,200 children, youth and their families locally each year. We care for young people who are victims of physical and sexual abuse, neglect and abandonment, as well as providing resources and support to area families at risk of having their children removed from their home.
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.
By focusing on pathways to long-term supportive relationships for youth ‘aging out’ of care, this research project contributes to the existing work by adding a social support element to the findings. The report calls to the attention of the BC government the urgent need to pursue permanency for youth in care who are unable to return to their biological families.
This report outlines the work of the Youth Transitions Advisory Council as the members continue to develop strategies to assist these young adults as they prepare for success in the lives ahead of them. (Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth)
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.
In this first-of-its-kind report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation draws on a new source of national and state-level data to illustrate the experience of transitioning from foster care to adulthood. It’s critical that all stakeholders understand the experiences of young people transitioning from foster care in America if outcomes are to improve.
This paper is an overview of the elements that support foster youth as they enter and manage their education at the college level.
This report examines Independent Living (IL) services for youth aged 16 to 21 years in foster care, provided by the Children’s Administration (CA) of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).
This is the Second Annual Report on the Foster Youth Transition to Independence Study (FYT). There are three main purposes of the FYT study: (1) to examine the characteristics of youth leaving public child welfare foster care in Washington state; (2) to examine how prepared those youth are for emancipation; and (3) to examine how the youth have fared after emancipation….