Ensuring Youth Transitioning from Foster Care are Connected by 25: Lessons Learned from the Foster Care Work Group (2009)

This publication that follows describes the rich implementation experiences, promising approaches, and significant accomplishments of the leaders of FCWG’s national demonstration — the Connected by 25 Initiative. In addition to the critical lessons learned from the co-investment demonstration, the experience of FCWG as an active and engaged funder collaborative during the past six years also is an interesting story worth telling. This preface of this document reflects briefly on the structure of FCWG, the value FCWG brings to its members, the challenges members have faced, the lessons FCWG members have learned, and the outcomes FCWG has achieved through its collaborative work.