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    The HEY Education Workgroup convenes local education providers and supporters to learn and talk about issues in serving current and former foster youth’s education needs.

    Inside the Research: Does Keeping Youth in Foster Care Beyond Age 18 Help to Prevent Homelessness?

    By Josefina on April 27, 2010

    Allowing young people to remain in foster care until their 21st birthday may not prevent but may delay entry into homelessness. Foster youth in Illinois are about one-third as likely to become homeless by age 19 and about three-quarters as likely to become homeless by age 21 as foster youth in Wisconsin and Iowa. However, by age 23 or 24, those differences have nearly disappeared.

    Read the Inside the Research on homelessness among former foster youth.

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    Transitioning Out of Foster Care into Adulthood: Outcomes at Ages 23 and 24

    By Josefina on April 27, 2010

    New Findings from Midwest Study on Transitioning Out of Foster Care into Adulthood: Outcomes at Ages 23 and 24
    The Midwest Study provides a comprehensive picture of how foster youth are faring during this transition since the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 became law. Young people who age out of foster care continue to face major challenges in their early twenties, often unable to complete their educations and find housing and jobs. These new findings look at the outcomes at ages 23 and 24.

    Read Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth
    by Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky, JoAnn S. Lee, and Melissa Raap.

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    Leadership and Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators

    Leadership and Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators

    By Josefina on April 7, 2010

    This brief discusses the critical role the State legislators play in supporting greater stability for child welfare agency leadership and the importance of Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) as a tool for legislators in assessing child welfare system performance. It also describes the role of legislator-agency collaboration in bringing about system improvement through the CFSR process. The brief was produced for the Children’s Bureau by the technical assistance (TA) to State legislators on the CFSRs project component, managed by JBS International, Inc., with support from project subcontractor the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

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    Cancellation of Early Academic Planning Camp at San Jose State

    By Josefina on March 25, 2010

    The CME Society will be unable to provide the Early Academic Planning Camp this Summer 2010, due to funding constraints facing their sponsors. It is unfortunate that this opportunity for foster youth in California, has been canceled, but they would like to encourage youth to seek out the pre college programs in their local county community colleges and universities, such as Upward Bound, GEAR Up and other pre-college experiences being held at CSUs and UC schools.

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    HEY Education Workgroup Meeting

    By admin on September 22, 2009

    Date: November 10, 2009
    San Francisco ILSP, 225 Valencia Street, SF.
    This workgroup is a convening of local foster care education providers and supporters.  Our goal is to provide training and support to direct service providers who work with foster youth.

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