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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
The Destination Future National Youth Leadership Conference will be held in Chevy Chase, Maryland. This conference brings together youth from across the country to learn what others are doing in the areas of independent living and transitional living programs.
The National Resource Center for Youth Services hosts this nationally recognized conference for social service professionals and youth involved in Independent Living and Transitional Living programs. Pathways to Adulthood 2006 will be held in Portland, Oregon.
The Fall 2005 issue of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook includes in-depth coverage of the situation of out-of-school youth in the city. Through interviews with 50 out-of-school youth and articles in English and Spanish, the issue covers topics like data shortfalls, zero tolerance, financial incentive structures, early intervention strategies, and the special circumstances affecting young people aging out of foster care and those who are pregnant and parenting.
Former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study. More than 20 percent of adults formerly in foster care are doing well—but most, however, face major challenges in the areas of mental health, education, and employment. One-third are living at or below the poverty level, and nearly a quarter experienced homelessness some time after leaving foster care. Changes in foster care services can help.
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