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First Place for Youth
A foundation for life after foster care.
Published: September 23, 2008
First Place For Youth
Easing the Transition from Foster Care to Independent Living
For many foster children, life is anything but stable. Children raised in more traditional home settings learn the life skills necessary to cope in the adult world, but many foster children simply are ill-prepared for their sudden "emancipation" at 18. Consequently, they are at high risk for homelessness, poverty, low educational attainment and poor health.
In California—where 70 percent of the inmates in San Quentin State Prison are former foster children—a Foundation-supported program is helping to ease that often difficult transition from foster care to independent living—beginning two years before they turn 18.
Called "A First Place for Youth," the program gives young adults in the Bay Area a safe, secure place to live, along with occupational and educational support services. First Place houses 130 youth from four Bay Area counties at any given time, and is now considered a national role model.
And a promising role model it is. As Executive Director Sam Cobbs says: "If we can do it here, we can do it everywhere."
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Listed below is one grant that supported this project.
| Grant | Awarded to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Providing a healthy and safe transition for youth who age out of the foster care system |
First Place for Youth (Oakland, CA) ID#: 053598 Andrew Niklaus 510-272-0979 aniklaus@firstplaceforyouth.org http://www.firstplaceforyouth.org |
Actual award: $500,000 July 2005 to December 2009 |
RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.
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