The Chronicle of Social Change is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI), a group of 12 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships.
The program is overseen each summer by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. Each of the FYI participants crafted a policy recommendation during their time in Washington, D.C. Today we highlight the recommendation of Justin Abbasi, a student at Yale University.
The Proposal
Abbasi would update the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to include two new grants:
Support for “trauma-informed, evidence-based psychosocial services” for transition-age youth.
Support for services that help these youth access behavioral health services, including “transportation costs” and “reimbursement for lost wages.”
[For more of this story, written by John Kelly, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...ealth-services/27572]
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