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Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Implications for Providers, Impact on Budgets
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One important provision of the 2008 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act extended federal support for keeping foster youth in care until age 21. The goal is to improve educational and health-related outcomes.
This extension of care has significant implications for service providers as they plan adaptations to their programs for a group of older youth who need services that will help prepare them for independence. It has implications as well for the budgets of state agencies and program providers. Join us on May 12 for a discussion on extending foster care to age 21 and its implications for providers and impact on budgets. |
Panelists
- Mark Courtney, Ph.D., is Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago and Affiliated Scholar, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and Principal Investigator of the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth.
- Angie Schwartz, J.D., is the Policy Director at The Alliance for Children's Rights, where she works to improve the child welfare system through systemic reform.
- Eprise Armstrong is a master's degree student in social work at Washington University's Brown School of Social Work. She spent 13 years in the child welfare system in Indiana and Michigan.
- Matthew Stagner, Ph.D., is Executive Director, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (Moderator).
- Other panelists to be announced.
Register to attend in person in Chicago
A light breakfast will be provided at 8:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at 9 a.m.
Register for the live webcast
A recording will be archived after the event on the Chapin Hall website.
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