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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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Link to Report Off-site link

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/Psychiatric Disabilities, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities, 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

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/2208

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