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Employment and Training Services for Youth
Resources to assist at-risk youth with employment preparation to improve their vocational success and self-sufficiency, including State and local examples.
It's My Life: Employment: A Guide for Transition Services From Casey Family Programs (PDF - 886 KB)
Casey Family Programs (2004)
Provides recommendations to help prepare young people for employment.
The Job Development Initiative (JDI): An Intensive Jobs-Based Approach to Youth Self-Sufficiency
Rodriguez, Downs, Burns, & Hill (2000)
In Preparing Youth for Long-Term Success: Proceedings From the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum
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Designed to improve the vocational success and self-sufficiency of youth leaving foster care by helping youth assess their career interests and gain work experience in their fields of interest.
The Path to Independence Project
Avery (2000)
In Preparing Youth for Long-Term Success: Proceedings From the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum
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The goal of the Path to Independence Project is to facilitate collaborative relationships between foster care agencies and community businesses to help youth explore employment choices and practice job skills.
Preparation of Youth for Employment (PYE): Description and Evaluation of a Competency-Based Approach to Economic Independence
Bach, Downs, Friend, Patz, & Topkins (2001)
In Preparing Youth for Long-Term Success: Proceedings From the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum
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Designed to help youth achieve economic self-sufficiency by improving skills necessary for successful independent living, such as collecting and using information, negotiating, decision-making, understanding organizations, communicating clearly, computer literacy, and constructive self-evaluation.
Promising Practices: School to Career and Postsecondary Education for Foster Care Youth: A Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners (PDF - 162 KB)
Workforce Strategy Center (2000)
Describes services foster care programs are implementing to meet the needs of youth, including skill building, work experience, academic counseling, career counseling, mentoring, scholarships, and transportation.
Raising Competent Young Adults: Self-Sufficiency Work With Youth and Families
Choca, Pesce, Austin, Andrew, et al. (2001)
In Preparing Youth for Long-Term Success: Proceedings From the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum
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The self-sufficiency training program for youth transitioning out of foster care contains three major components-education, employment, and life skills- designed to increase the competencies necessary for successful independent living.
The Real Life Fair
O'Leary (2000)
In Preparing Youth for Long-Term Success: Proceedings From the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum
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Designed to help middle-school-age youth understand how career choices will influence their lifestyle and budget. The Real Life Fair curriculum can be adapted to the needs of alternative education or high school students, American Indian youth, and students with mental disabilities.
Vocational Preparation and Employability Development
North, Mallabar, & Desrochers
Child Welfare, 67(6), 1988
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Discusses vocational preparation for foster youth about to leave care. Presents an example of an independent living plan that relates employment to education, housing, transportation, recreation, and other life areas.
What Works in Employment Programs for Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Dale (2000)
In What Works in Child Welfare
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Highlights the Children's Village Work Appreciation for Youth scholarship program, which includes sequential work experience, training in work ethics, tutoring, long-term mentoring, and incentives for saving money for youth transitioning out of foster care.
Work Appreciation for Youth: The WAY to Work—An Independent Living/Aftercare Program for High Risk Youth: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study
Baker, Olson, & Mincer (2000)
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Developed to support youth who are moving into independent living situations or reuniting with their families. Emphasis is placed on skills needed for retaining employment and living in the community, and preventing problems such as homelessness and criminal behavior.
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State and local examples
Getting the Job Done: Effectively Preparing Foster Youth for Employment (PDF - 391 KB)
Lewis
What Works Policy Brief, 9, 2004
Provides examples of agency partnerships that leverage services and mobilize resources across communities to prepare foster youth.
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