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In Transition: A better future for youth leaving foster care

Child Welfare Watch Volumes 19 & 20, Winter 2010/2011 (PDF) Last year, more than 1,100 New Yorkers aged 18 or older left the city’s foster care system. A few were enrolled in college. Others found steady jobs and affordable places to live. But many more were on the insecure fringes of the economy, without stable [...]

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Dozens of Young People Turned Away From Shelters

New York City shelters for homeless and runaway youth have turned away dozens of young people this summer because of lack of space, shelter operators and advocacy groups say. Advocates attribute the problem to the economic downturn, which they say has made it more difficult for older adolescents and young adults to find the jobs [...]

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