Helping Young People Leave Foster Care: Recent Grants

Andrus Family Fund (New York): For an eight-month residential program on a schooner designed to

increase the self-esteem of foster youths while teaching them job skills at sea: $120,000 over three years to Community Health and Counseling Services (Bangor, Me.).

— For a program that assigns youngsters in foster care to churches, synagogues, and other religious institutions as a way of providing a connection to others outside the system: $185,000 over two years to the Youth Law Center (San Francisco).

Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore): To establish this organization, which helps young people leaving foster care become productive, independent adults: $2,750,000 to Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative (St. Louis).

— To train young people who have recently left foster care to provide guidance to youngsters who remain: $45,000 to California Youth Connection (San Francisco).

Child Welfare Fund (New York): To help teenagers in foster care develop employment skills, and to provide them with stipends for part-time work: $10,000 to Brookwood Child Care (New York).

— For a study of current and former foster youths designed to educate child-care workers, policy makers, and others about the independent-living needs of teenagers making the transition out of foster care: $40,000 to Youth Communication (New York).

Stuart Foundation (San Francisco): For their Guardian Scholars programs, which provide young people leaving foster care with emotional and financial support in college: $336,129 over three years to California State Polytechnic U. at Pomona and $324,495 over three years to California State U. at Fullerton.

— To offer vocational services to foster youths in residential treatment: $120,000 to Seattle Children’s Home.