Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

CFK Top Article Pick: Telling Stories that Teach, and Heal

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:55:16 -0500

Teenagers in foster care often have stories to tell—but lack the tools to tell them. CFK looks at how the Center for Digital Storytelling has provided those tools to participants in their program, and helped create valuable teaching tools for those who work with teens in care.

Protecting Children and Strengthening Families

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:59:02 -0500

Too many children experience abuse and neglect with negative lifelong consequences. Too few children get the services and supports they need to heal. Yet, proven and promising practices can reduce maltreatment and ameliorate harm.

Youth Today: Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:54:12 -0500

On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems and enter others: foster care, residential treatment centers, higher education, mental health programs, gainful employment.

Chapin Hall Conducts National Review of Policies and Programs for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:18:55 -0600

This report provides a comprehensive review of state efforts to support youth transitioning out of foster care. As part of the review, Chapin Hall administered a web-based survey of state independent

Job Corps Residential Program

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:34:01 -0600

The Job Corps serves youth aging out of foster care with a residential program that provides access to earn a high school diploma or GED, training and preparation for a career, housing, meals, basic h

Improving Policies

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:32:18 -0600

The Society for Research in Child Development says we can improve the transition to independent living for foster teens. Measures include revising eligibility requirements so they no longer exclude hi

Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Students from Foster Care

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:37:57 -0600

Only about 10 percent of students from foster care enroll in higher education -- with less than 2 percent earning bachelor's degrees. This Casey Family Programs resource can assist colleges in improving their support for students coming from foster care.

Continuing in Foster Care Beyond Age 18: How Courts Can Help

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:13:06 -0500

By examining foster youth in Illinois -- one of the few states that extends care up to
age 21 -- this new Chapin Hall study finds that a higher degree of advocacy by juvenile
courts is linked with more services for older foster youth, greater involvement by

Financing Education Supports For Youth Transitioning Out Of Foster Care

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:43:22 -0500

This Finance Project brief presents five financing strategies that can support education success programs and services for youth currently in or transitioning out of the foster care system. For each, the brief highlights relevant funding sources to consider, the range of partners to engage, considerations for implementation and examples of the strategy in practice.

Casey Young Adult Survey

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:39:35 -0500

This annual cohort study examines the impact of foster care services from Casey Family Programs on youth ages 19, 22 and 25. This study also compares these youth to other former foster youth and to their peers who have never experienced foster care.

A“Ticket to Work” for Transitioning Youth – and Those Working With Them

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:12:55 -0600

If you work with teens with disabilities, you’ll want to know about the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work (TTW) program. Its Youth Transition portion offers funds for organizations that help students receiving Social Security disability benefits find employment. Is it right for you? Melody Goodspeed, Youth Transition Specialist for TTW answers some common questions about the funding.

Getting Beyond the Foster Care System: What Works for Teens

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:47:19 -0600

Could you have made it entirely on your own at 18 or 21? Each year, roughly 25,000 young people “age out” of the foster care system, many without family or economic supports. Without connection to a caring adult and support to plan and prepare, these youth face steep challenges, including higher rates of unemployment, poor educational attainment, health issues, incarceration, and homelessness. But those are the problems, the statistics—what about the potential of these teens, and their desire to succeed? We spoke with Betsy Krebs, co-director of the New York City-based Youth Advocacy Center, about what works to help teens aging out of foster care succeed. There’s room for the whole community...

Who's Doing What That Works: Readers' Choice Stories

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:37:03 -0600

October 2007—Our partner Child Advocacy 360 brings you "Readers' Choice Stories," in which readers vote with their eyes, clicks and emails on the best of Who's Doing What That Works.

Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:12:22 -0500

Start: Oct 18 2006 - 8:00am

End: Oct 19 2006 - 5:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT+5

Chapin Hall Center for Children and The MacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy are co-sponsoring Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood.

Keeping Kids in the Child Welfare System After 18

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:39:39 -0600

CFK reports from: Keeping Kids in the Child Welfare System After 18
Event: A Web conference
Organized by: Chapin Hall Center for Children
Where/When: On the Web, Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 1 pm ET

This one-hour discussion brought together six panelists to discuss the experiences of Illinois with allowing children in the foster care system to choose to remain as wards of the state past the age of 18, up to age 21.