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Housing, Education, and Health Care
Resources and information about housing, education, and health care services for youth after they have emancipated from out-of-home care.
Housing
Can't Do It Alone: Housing Collaborations to Improve Foster Youth Outcomes
Choca, Minoff, Angene, Byrnes, & Kenneally
Child Welfare, 83(5), 2004
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Describes the partners, models, and resources several collaborations used, their progress and outcomes, insights gained, and directions for future work.
Reaching the Hard to Reach: Innovative Housing for Homeless Youth Through Strategic Partnerships
Van Leeuwen
Child Welfare, 83(5), 2004
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Features three housing programs targeting the needs of youth aging out of child welfare in Colorado. Describes how data have driven program development and discusses how policy implications and relationships with the public and private sector can leverage additional resources.
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Education
Educational Opportunity for Youth in Care
Mack
Children's Voice, 11(3), 2002
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Evaluates the nature and success of 17 State programs, from scholarships to tuition waivers, that support foster and adopted youth in earning their college degrees.
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Health care
The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999: Enhancing Youth Access to Health Care (PDF - 76 KB)
English & Grasso (2000)
Examines research that demonstrates physical development and sexual health issues should be special areas of concern; discusses current barriers to health care; and offers a number of suggestions for child welfare advocates seeking to promote continued access to health care and other independent living services at the State and Federal level.
When Foster Care Ends, Health Care Shouldn't
English & Grasso
Child Law Practice, 19(9), 2000
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Presents an overview of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, lists specific steps that States can take to maximize essential health-care services for former foster children, and suggests specific actions child welfare advocates can take to encourage States to implement the Act's Medicaid expansion option to the fullest possible extent.
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