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Care Coordination Services Helping Foster Care Youth Transition into Adulthood

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Care Coordination Services

Helping Foster Care Youth Transition into Adulthood

Care Coordination Services

• Care Coordination Services® is an intensive case management program that helps youth who are preparing to leave foster care because they are turning 18 to transition into independent living.

• Through visits and meetings, trained family Consultants work with youth and other involved parties (school personnel, therapists, coaches, dependency case managers, juvenile probation officers, attorneys) to identify strengths, and needs, and link these young people to support services so they can finish school, get a job and find a place to live.

The Need Is Great

• Every year, approximately 18,000 youth “age-out” of the foster care system.

• These youth often do not get the support they need to

complete high school, find employment, access health care, pursue post secondary educational opportunities, obtain adequate housing and make transitional living arrangements.

• Studies of youth who have left foster care show that they are more likely to not finish high school, be unemployed and be dependent on public assistance than youth in the general population. Many will end up in prison, become homeless or become parents at an early age.

The Need Is Great

• At age 24, only half will be employed

• Less than 3% will have earned a college degree

• One in four will have experienced post-traumatic stress disorder at twice the rate of United States war veterans

• 71% of females will be pregnant by age 21

When and Where do Care Coordination Services visits

occur?

All visits and meetings are scheduled at the youth’s convenience and can be planned for evenings and weekends. They can take place at any location in

the community. Family Consultants are on call 24/7.

Who Is Eligible?

Any youth who is aging out of the foster care system is eligible; other youth mat be eligible upon review.

How do I find out more?

• Call us at 504-293-7900. Our staff will guide you through the referral process. If Care Coordination Services are not a good fit for a youth, the intake specialist can help you find other services in the community.

• Referral (DCFS, or other agency)• Assessment & Eligibility• Intake• Service Planning and Delivery