This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief is a financial literacy curriculum overview for older youth and young adults who are exiting foster care. Topics covered by the accompanying participant guides include building the foundation for your financial future, understanding credit history, getting credit, understanding income, paying bills and budgeting, savings activities, banking activities, and protection against identity theft.

This Urban Institute report examines youth employment 2013 data in-depth (the most recent data available). There is a particular focus on disparities in employment outcomes by race and ethnicity, sex, and age, for youth ages 16-24. The report also analyzes the industry sectors where youth are employed and rates of disconnection between school and work that could explain declining youth labor force participation rates.

This Chapin Hall issue brief reviews: child welfare workers’ perceptions of county-level availability of training and the range of services available for transition-age foster youth; workers’ views about the collaboration between child welfare departments and other service delivery systems; and the correlation between foster youth satisfaction with training and services and outcomes in education, homelessness, employment and health. The analysis relies on longitudinal studies from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH) conducted in 2013 and 2015. Report findings point to the need for increased collaboration among child welfare and other systems, as well as connection of foster youths’ satisfaction with offered services to support service delivery.

This Prosperity Now report is the culmination of an 18-month partnership with the Citi Foundation to design and implement the Youth Financial Capability Fund, which integrated workforce development with financial capability services and supported five youth workforce development organizations: Genesys Works, Juma Ventures, NPower, STRIVE International, and the Urban Alliance. The report identifies 11 key findings in the following five categories that agencies can use when designing financial capability programs to meet young people’s needs: preparing for organizational change, putting youth at the center, exploring partnerships’ role, measuring progress, and managing organizational change and sustaining financial capability work. Also highlighted are recommendations on how to partner with employers, offer multi-generational financial capability services to support household financial empowerment, and collaborate across sectors to address barriers that disconnected youth face when considering their financial well-being.

This Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice guide, with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, was developed to assist juvenile justice and social service professionals who support re-entering youth after their confinement or court-ordered out-of-home placement. The guide includes model programs, anticipated outcomes, and mechanisms to meet the needs of justice-involved youth in housing, health, education, and employment.

This Child Trends report examines the impact of extended foster care on older youth (over 18 years old) as they transition to adulthood. The report analyzes the relationship between extended foster care and attainment of young adult outcomes in education and employment, as well as independent living. Data in this report are drawn from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Foster Care File, the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Services File, and the NYTD Outcomes File.

This U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention data report covers statistics on girls engaged in the juvenile justice system. Data tables review the female proportion of total youth arrests for violent and non-violent offenses, patterns of incarceration, and residential placement. There is also trend analysis of case processing and characteristics of young women who are involved with the juvenile justice system.

This report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other organizations, suggests how state policy makers in Maine could reform the child welfare or juvenile justice system for youth. It presents national research that identifies how a full continuum approach – covering prevention to reintegration – could help youth successfully transition to adulthood.

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Family and Youth Services Bureau, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, and SchoolHouse Connection, will host a webinar on May 7, 2019 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET which will focus on preventing homelessness and supporting homeless youth. The webinar will review intervention strategies and how to interact with communities and local homelessness systems. It will conclude with a Q&A session. This event will be moderated by Francis Mendez, Project Director, NTTAC, and will include the following presenters:

• Christopher Holloway, Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Manager, Family and Youth Services Bureau
• Patricia Julianelle, Director of Program Advancement and Legal Affairs, SchoolHouse Connection
• Norman Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, Division of Youth Services will hold a webinar on April 29, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will cover technical assistance resources available to assist youth workforce development practitioners in delivering all-inclusive services to young people.