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Youth in Transition

Street Law's Youth in Transition program teaches young people aging out of the foster care system the legal life skills they will need as adults.

Street Law offers curriculum and training for professionals who work directly with foster care youth. Youth in Transition is also available to corporations and law firms wishing to develop a volunteer program that focuses on educating this under-served youth population. 

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Youth in Transition empowers youth by providing them with practical legal knowledge presented through interactive lessons that promote cooperative learning, critical thinking, and the development of life skills. The lessons focus on practical, relevant topics:

  • Finding housing
  • Understanding rights and responsibilities of employment
  • Accessing social services
  • Education and health law
  • Consumer laws and protections
  • Avoiding child abuse and neglect
  • Understanding the foster care system and legal issues related to closing cases

Allstate's Youth in Transition Program

In 2011, Allstate’s Chicago-based staff counsel implemented a seven-week Youth in Transition program at Lawrence Hall, a residential foster care facility in Chicago. Volunteer attorneys worked directly with the youths at Lawrence Hall to determine the topics that would be taught. Then teams of attorneys taught weekly, 90-minute sessions on employment, housing, and consumer law. 

Street Law staff provided training and lesson plans and connected the Allstate attorneys with the foster care facility. 

  • To learn more about this program and how you can involve your company or law firm, please contact Deborah Foster

Allstate Chicago YIT team

 

Allstate's Chicago Youth in Transition team

 

The Youth in Transition lesson plans were developed with funding from the National Resource Center for Youth Services.

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