Beyond the foster care system : the future for teens / Betsy Krebs, Paul Pitcoff.
Each year tens of thousands of teenagers are released from the foster care system in the United States without high school degrees or strong family relationships. Two to four years after discharge, half of these young people still do not have either a high school diploma or equivalency degree, and f...
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Table of Contents:
- First impressions of the foster care system--Teresa
- Education for foster care teens--Carlos
- Teaching teens rights
- Jenny
- Policy advocacy with teens--Xaranda
- Preparing for independent living--Leonard
- Creating the Getting Beyond the System self-advocacy seminars
- Informational interviews : a bridge from foster care to the community
- System resistance to empowering teens.