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Housing for Youth Transitioning From Foster Care
Resources and information about housing for youth who are transitioning out of the foster care system, including State and local examples.
Can't Do it Alone: Housing Collaborations to Improve Foster Youth Outcomes
Choca, Minoff, Angene, Byrnes, Kenneally, Norris, Pearn, & Rivers
Child Welfare, 83(5), 2004
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Discusses how housing collaborations, which aim to comprehensively address resource and service needs for transitioning youth, have resulted in innovative programming and forged new relationships among child welfare, social service and housing developers, and providers.
CWLA Standards of Excellence for Transition, Independent Living, and Self-Sufficiency Services
Child Welfare League of America (2005)
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Addresses assessment and service delivery, program administration, the continuum of services and role of case management, and variety of living arrangements. Emphasis is placed on the domains of life skill development, identity formation, community relationships, health and mental health, education, employment, and housing.
Housing Options for Independent Living Programs
Lighthouse Youth Services (1999)
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Reviews a wide range of options for housing youth while they prepare for discharge from foster care.
It's My Life: Housing: A Guide for Transition Services From Casey Family Programs
Casey Family Programs (2005)
Information for child welfare professionals and others who work with youth transitioning to adulthood and independent living, including several recommendations and corresponding strategies to help young people obtain and keep safe, affordable housing. (PDF - 904 KB)
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.
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State and local examples
Someone to Care, a Place to Belong: Adolescents and Foster Care in Massachusetts (PDF - 54 KB)
Casey Family Services (2003)
Recommends policy changes as priorities for teens when they age out of foster care at age 18, including creating a statewide system of vocational training and job placement to enhance transitional housing supports for foster youth.
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