Promising Practices: Foster Youth Transition


The Youth Transition Action Teams Initiative (YTAT) collects and shares stories of promising practices implemented by organizations that support transitioning and former foster youth as they enter adulthood. These practices come from a variety of geographic areas and serve a diverse range of young people. They are being carried out by organizations, agencies, and inter-disciplinary partnerships in child welfare, workforce development, education, civic and government bodies, and other community-based programs.


Indices to Promising Practices: Foster Youth Transition

To access individual Promising Foster Youth Transition Practices, use any of the three indices:

Subject
County
Elements of a Comprehensive Local Youth-Serving System

The Youth Council Institute has also collected promising and effective practices from Youth Councils and their partners from across the country. These YCideas include a variety of topics that may be of interest to Youth Transition Action Teams and others working with youth in and emancipating from foster care.


Call for Promising Practices: Foster Youth Transition

Share Your Promising Practices with a Statewide Audience Please share your promising practices with others throughout the state, highlighting your strategies to support current and former foster youth in academic achievement, career development, social services and supports, and youth leadership.

Suggested topics include

• youth-friendly One-Stops,
• WIA eligibility,
• data collection and sharing,
• evaluation models,
• strategies for gainful employment and work-based experiences,
• high school academic success,
• support for transitions to college,
• support for permanent relationships,
• access to affordable transition housing, and
• youth involvement in planning and decision-making.

To share your story, please fill out the On-line Submission Form for Promising Foster Youth Practices. For a printable version of the questions that appear on the form, visit the Promising Practice Announcement.

Click here to see a compilation of the 2006 Promising Practices.(pdf 2.6 mb)