HELPING CLIENTS TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENT LIVING

doi:10.1111/j.1744-1617.2007.00159.x

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Family Court Review

Volume 45 Issue 3, Pages 444 - 454

Published Online: 26 May 2007

The Journal of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

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HELPING CLIENTS TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENT LIVING

Scott Hollander ¹ , Jonathan Budd ² , William A. Petulla ³ , and Jennifer A. Staley ⁴

¹ Washington State, Colorado, and Pennsylvania and at the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center
² U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
³ Auberle Group Home in McKeesport, PA
⁴ Certified Legal Intern, Staff Attorney

Correspondence: shollander@kidsvoice.org; jbudd@kidsvoice.org; wpetulla@kidsvoice.org; jstaley@kidsvoice.org

KEYWORDS

aging out • independent living • transition to adulthood • college • postsecondary education • foster care • foster youth • youth advisory board

ABSTRACT

There is growing recognition and concern that too many of the 20,000 foster youth who age out of the child welfare system each year¹ in this country do so without the basic necessities of housing, education, employment, and health care. The purpose of this article is to outline the problems facing foster youth as they leave care and to detail, as a case study, the steps taken by KidsVoice, a Pittsburgh legal services organization representing almost 5,000 dependent children each year, to help youth in foster and substitute care transition more successfully to adulthood and independent living.

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