I’m speaking today with Echo Garrett of The Orange Duffel Bag Foundation and Amy Roberts of Next Step
These two programs are successful in breaking the cycle of foster youth who age out of foster care into homelessness and jail. Surveys show that 70% of inmates were either homeless or in foster care in their youth.
When the bathtub is overflowing, first turn off the tap. These programs intervene in time to help foster youth transition into successful adulthood rather than becoming part of the prison population.
Listen to hear
- How the programs work
- The success rates
- How Sam Bracken, abused and abandoned at 15, says he beat the odds
- Speaking to foster youth aging out
- The roadblocks that keep foster youth from college and training programs and how to remove them
- How you can help
Listen now
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Dave Phillips of Cincinnati Works, award winning program successfully moving families from chronic unemployment or the working poor to self-sufficiency
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My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change Site
CincinnatiWorks Next Step program
About the Court Appointed Special Advocate program
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