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“Tell Us What We Need to Hear”
Extracurricular Activities Benefit Foster Youth
LGBT Foster and Adoptive Parenting Information Packet
Meeting the Educational Requirements of Fostering Connections
National Youth in Transition Database Launches
Numbers of Youth Aging Out Increases
Foster Youth Education Initiative
Financial Aid Assistance to Students from Foster Care
Municipal Action Guide to Assist Transitioning Foster Youths
Benefits and Costs of Intensive Foster Care Services
Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
Sabotaged by the System - Foster Youths are Targets for Identity Fraud
Continuing in Foster Care Beyond Age 18: How Courts Can Help
Serving Former Foster Youth in California Community Colleges
Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
Economy’s Ripple Effect on Kids
National Review of Policies and Programs to Support Young People Transitioning Out of Foster Care
Continuing in Foster Care Beyond Age 18: How Courts Can Help
There is compelling evidence that foster children who stay in care beyond the age of 18 experience more positive outcomes, and fewer negative outcomes, than those who leave at/or around age 18. Youth who remain in care after 18 have higher rates of enrollment in high school completion programs and college and better access to health care as well as lower rates of unemployment, homelessness, and incarceration. The full text is available at: Chapin Hall Center for Children