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Youth with Disabilities in the Foster Care System: Barriers to Success and Proposed Policy Solutions
02/26/2008 | Requests *Summary
This report is about older youth that are involved in the foster care system and have disabilities and the challenges and outcomes they experience in the areas of education, employment, and other indicators of well-being. The goal is to inform and advise state and federal policymakers in improving these outcomes through better services coordination, systems accountability, leadership development, and capacity building, focusing especially on the transition to adulthood.
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Keywords
Wages and Benefits; Transition Planning; Medicaid; Independent Living; Evidence-Based Practice; Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs; Advocacy; Foster Care; Services Coordination; Policy Recommendation; Leadership Development; waiver demonstrations
Topic
Children and Family Services, Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities, Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness, Transition/Diversion from Institutions, Waiver
Type/Tool
Announcement/Press release, Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers, Promising practices, Reports
Source
National Council on Disability
State
Arizona, California, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, All States/Territories
Date Created
04/14/2008
Contact
National Council on Disability
1331 F Street, NW
Suite 850
Washington, DC 20004
ncd@ncd.gov
202-272-2004
1331 F Street, NW
Suite 850
Washington, DC 20004
ncd@ncd.gov
202-272-2004
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