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Taking Action
1. Youth leaving foster care are good kids, but they need the community's help to ensure they become independent and healthy.
2. Youth leaving foster care often have not had as much experience with the world of work as other youth. Some of these young people may therefore need extra attention navigating the application, screening process, and on the job training.
3. Specifically, consider three things you/your company can do to help youth in your community:
Introduce them to the world of work: Offering opportunities for job shadowing, apprenticeships, and internships are a great way to prepare youth in foster care for the working world.
Open doors to job training: Helping youth gain access to job training and post-secondary education greatly increases their chances for success.
Recruit, train, and employ youth leaving foster care: Successful models, such as the UPS School-to-Career partnership, show that youth leaving care can make good employees for companies who want to "do good" in their communities while "doing well" at the same time.
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FOSTER CARE RESOURCES
AGING OUT on PBS.org
Read foster care stories and watch video clips from the film
Learn more about the film, filmmakers and funders
Explore extensive print and online foster care information for youth and
communities
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JIM CASEY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES INITIATIVE
What you can do to help youth transitioning from care
Links to foster
care and youth development organizations
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