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Youth in Transition

Street Law for Youth in Transition works with professionals in foster care, transitional and independent living programs, and other social service providers to create practical legal education programs for vulnerable youth.

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This program is designed to help your organization empower youth by providing them with practical legal knowledge presented through interactive lessons that promote cooperative learning, critical thinking, and positive interaction among young people and between young people and adults. The lessons deal with topics including the following:

  • 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

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Youth in Transition was developed with funding from the National Resource Center for Youth Services.

Allstate's Youth in Transition Program

Street Law partnered with the Chicago Staff Counsel and  Allstate Company in Chicago to implement a seven-week Youth in Transition program with volunteers from across the company teaching lessons and life skills to young people in Lawrence Hall, a residential foster care facility in Chicago. Street Law staff trained the Chicago staff counsel attorneys and volunteers from the Allstate law department that visited the facility and taught 90-minutes sessions once or twice a week on topics employment, housing, and consumer law.  The partnership between Street Law and Lawrence hall was a “smashing success” the young adults were extremely engaged. Lawrence Hall has expressed great interest in continuing the initiative in the year 2012.

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