This document contains the final report on the Life Skills for Adolescents Project in northwestern Texas. The report is in the form of a process evaluation of progress toward achieving the project goal of enabling adolescents leaving substitute care to be better prepared to manage their own lives. The report describes the efforts of the project director and four child protective services specialists who formed the Adolescent Care Team to work with 20 adolescents 14 through 18 years of age who were expected to be in long-term substitute care. The background and origin of the project are described and the project goal and objectives are listed. Project accomplishments are discussed in the areas of: (1) the Adolescent Care Team; (2) the adolescents involved in the project; (3) life skills training; (4) peer support system; (5) therapy group structure and focus; (6) individual problems; (7) jobs and education; and (8) assessment and outcome. The section on life skills training is further divided into the areas of job hunting skills, money management skills, human sexuality, health care, communication and interpersonal relationships, and need for education. Topics addressed in a section on adolescents in independent living arrangements include emancipated youths, support system after substitute care, recruiting foster parents for adolescents, and local private child care facilities. The appendix contains a support group curriculum outline. (NB)