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Foster Care

Foster Care. Effect of Aging out of Foster Care on Adolescents: Employment and Educational services. Research Topic. Effect of Aging out of Foster Care on Adolescents Employment services Educational services. Foster Care: Background. Foster care:

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Foster Care

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  1. Foster Care Effect of Aging out of Foster Care on Adolescents: Employment and Educational services

  2. Research Topic • Effect of Aging out of Foster Care on Adolescents • Employment services • Educational services

  3. Foster Care: Background • Foster care: • 24 hour substitute care for children outside of their own homes • 29,000 of the youth that age out of foster care are 18 years or older and do not have a safe, permanent family to turn to for help • Three of the most significant challenges for foster youth • Education • Employment • Housing

  4. Employment • Unemployment = biggest obstacle • Major obstacles in finding Employment • Only 18 years old • Minimal Education • Interviewed Teen • Lived in foster care for 8 years • 3 years after aging out • No steady job • Dropped out of college • 25% - 50% of Foster Youth are Employed • Make below the poverty level • $5,000 and $10,000 per year

  5. Employment Help • Programs in place • Not working as they should • Programs in place for the foster youth depend on the state • UPS School-to-Career Partnership Program in Maryland • Workforce Investment Act (WIA) • Passed in 1998 • Allows businesses and jobseekers to come together • One-stop system

  6. Education • 25% of Foster youth do not have a high school diploma or a GED • Only 2 % completed college • Youth that have been in foster care since a young age often switch homes fairly often • Often move up to 3 times a year • Moving homes causes a disruption in the adolescents schedule • Can lose up to 4 to 6 months of educational progress

  7. Future Research • Research into how well the employment programs in the individual states are implemented • Look at what works and what does not work and develop those elements into a nation wide program for all foster youth who age out of care • Talk to foster youth who are now grown and figure out what was the hardest part of continuing their education, and use these to develop programs that will help foster youth who age out to finish some sort of higher education

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