Youth with Disabilities in the Foster Care System: Barriers to Success and Proposed Policy Solutions

Article Publication Date:

2/26/2008

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.

Topics:

Transition/Diversion from Institutions; Medicaid Waivers

Types/Tools:

Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers; Promising practices; Reports; Announcement/Press release

Populations:

Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness; Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities; Children and Families; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

National Council on Disability

Programs/Initiatives:

N/A

States:

All States/Territories; Arizona; California; North Carolina; Tennessee; Washington