Aging Out of Foster Care – Tennessee

Foster care effort sets Tennessee apart, researchers say, By Tony Gonzalez, May 12, 2015, The Tennessean: “A Tennessee foster care program has done something never before documented by researchers: made life better, at least a little bit, for a group of foster children who turned 18 and left state care.  The new findings give credit to some parts of a program run by Memphis-based Youth Villages. The non-profit’s services helped ‘aged out’ former foster children transition into adult lives — a notoriously challenging time for kids who grew up abused or in legal trouble and who often end up unemployed, homeless or jailed at rates high above their peers…”