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and Accompanying Guides (Casey Family Programs)
This holistic, integrated practice framework for transition services outlines practice guidelines and ways to measure outcomes in transition services. The accompanying resource guides provide strategies and tips in the areas of employment, housing, and postsecondary education and training.

It's My Life: Employment - career-development guide for youth.

It's My Life: Housing - guide to prepare young people to find, get, and keep housing.

It's My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training - guide to prepare young people from foster care for financial and academic success after high school.

Tools for Educators and School Administrators

Ways Educators Can Help (www.fostercaremonth.org)
Things teachers can do to support good educational outcomes for students in out-of-home care.

Educational Needs Index (ENI) (Lumina Foundation)
This is a county-level study of educational, economic, and population pressures that influence educational policy and planning at local, regional, and state levels.

Alternative Pathways Project (Gates Foundation 2005)

This report and accompanying appendix outlines alternative education options for vulnerable youth.

Getting Out of the Red Zone (Youth Law Center 2003)

This report uses the youth perspective to detail obstacles to completing education for youth impacted by the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

Tools for Nonprofits (Technical Assistance)

National Center on Youth Transition

Transition Services Worksheet (National Center on Youth Transition)
A worksheet that evaluates transition-related services provided by various agencies in the community

Theory of Change and Logic Models

(National Technical Assistance Center for Youth in Transition)
An HTML presentation written by Sharon Hodges and Mario Hernandez for a Teleconference for the National Technical Assistance Center For Youth in Transition (2003)

Personnel Training Modules for Working with Transition-Aged Youth and Young Adults (National Technical Assistance for Youth in Transition)
The Training Modules have been developed to enhance the competencies of those who work with transition-aged youth and young adults.

Access to Statistics and Data for Your State

Community Tools (National League of Cities)

Institute of Youth, Education & Families

Social Messaging and PR Toolkits

Communications Toolkit for Nonprofits (Cause Communications)

Foster Care Month (www.fostercaremonth.org)

Making Your Message Matter to the Media (PR Newswire)