After foster youth turn eighteen, the Independent Youth Housing program offers foster youth a chance to live in their own apartment with the support of staff while they try out all their new skills in real life. Youth can use this program until they turn 23. Help ensure their success by subsidizing their rent, helping them get together a deposit, and find furniture, household supplies and other things that will help them be independent.

Independent Youth Housing offered at Volunteers of America Eastern Washington

Program secures permanent or temporaty housing solutions that is available for youth 12-24 yrs old, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian and unsheltered.

Programs that help older children in foster care, emancipated youth who are no longer eligible for foster care and/or other youth, usually to age 21, establish residence in private homes, apartments, boarding homes, college dormitories or other residential settings and provide supervision and support while they develop independent living skills.

Supervised Living for Older Youth

Programs that provide vouchers or other forms of financial assistance that enable current and former foster youth to attend an accredited college, university, vocational or technical college. In addition to tuition, books and fees, the money may be used for room and board, child care, transportation, computers and other expenses the student may need to cover to make post secondary education possible. Included are the federally funded, state-administered Chafee Education and Training Vouchers program as well as state and county funded assistance, special scholarship programs and tuition and fee waiver programs offered by some publicly funded higher education institutions for this population.

Education and Training Benefits for Former Foster Youth

Volunteers of America's provides independent living skills, housing, support, advocacy, and college preparation for foster children approaching their eighteenth birthday. Making sure they have the basics covered so they are fully ready to build the life they deserve.

Foster Youth Services offered at Volunteers of America Eastern Washington

Volunteers of America's provides independent living skills, housing, support, advocacy and college preparation for foster children approaching their eighteenth birthday. Making sure they have the basics covered so they are fully ready to build the life they deserve.

Programs that offer training which focuses on the knowledge and skills an individual may need to live independently or make a successful transition to independent living. Participants may include runaway youth who are living on their own, youth who because of age can no longer be maintained in foster care, new widows, victims of domestic abuse, people who have previously been homeless, and others who have lived in an environment in which decision making and responsibilities of daily living have been handled by another as well as people currently living independently who want to be more effective. Training may address job search and retention, money management, insurance, taxes, rental agreements, vehicle purchase, nutrition, home management, health care, legal emancipation for teens and other similar topics.

Life Skills Education

Professional Services include assessment, individual counseling, family therapy, psychiatric evaluations, psychiatric prescribing, medication monitoring, and medication support. Intensive Outpatient Services include co-occurring intensive outpatient services, intensive outpatient for mental health and substance use disorders, and day treatment. Inpatient Services include family-initiated treatment, crisis stabilization, inpatient psychiatry services, a recovery house, intensive inpatient treatment, and secure withdrawal management, evaluation, and treatment.

LifePoint offered at Excelsior Wellness Center

Supporting young male adults in their pursuits of wellness and independent community-based living. Provides supportive living, transitional housing, supportive employment, primary healthcare and psychiatric services, private room and amenities.

Programs that find paid, meaningful work in a variety of community-based settings for people who have disabilities and which assign a "job coach" to work side-by-side with each client to interface with the employer and other employees, and provide training in basic job skills and work-related behaviors, assistance with specific tasks as needed and whatever other initial or ongoing support is required to ensure that the individual retains competitive employment. Included are individual placement models in which a job coach works on-the-job with a single individual and group models such as enclaves (which are self-contained work units of people needing support) and mobile work crews, in which a group of workers with disabilities receives continuous support and supervision from supported employment personnel. In the enclave model, groups of people with disabilities are trained to work as a team alongside employees in the host business supported by a specially trained on-site supervisor, who may work either for the host company or the placement agency. A variation of the enclave approach is called the "dispersed enclave" and is used in service industries (e.g., restaurants and hotels). Each person works on a separate job, and the group is dispersed throughout the company. In the mobile work crew model, a small team of people with disabilities works as a self-contained business and undertakes contract work such as landscaping and gardening projects. The crew works at various locations in a variety of settings within the community under the supervision of a job coach.

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Independent Youth Housing offered at Volunteers of America Eastern Washington

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LifePoint offered at Excelsior Wellness Center