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Download full textEdelstein, Sara; Lowenstein, Christopher – Urban Institute, 2014
This issue brief is one of three that focus on programs providing services to youth transitioning out of foster care in three common service domains: education, employment, and financial literacy and asset building. This brief highlights why employment services are important to youth currently or formerly in foster care, what we know about the…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Transitional Programs, Federal Legislation, Independent Living
Dworsky, Amy; Smithgall, Cheryl; Courtney, Mark E. – Urban Institute, 2014
Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999, the Foster Care Independence Act amended Title IV-E of the Social Security Act to create the Chafee…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Transitional Programs, Independent Living, Federal Legislation
Edelstein, Sara; Lowenstein, Christopher – Urban Institute, 2014
This issue brief is one of three that focus on programs providing services to youth transitioning out of foster care in three common service domains: education, employment, and financial literacy and asset building. This brief highlights why financial literacy and asset building services are important to youth currently or formerly in foster care,…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Transitional Programs, Youth, Access to Education
