Housing Assistance for Youth Who Have Aged Out of Foster Care: The Role of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program

May 1, 2012
In May 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a report on how states use Chafee funds for independent living services to assist youth as they age out of foster care and enter adulthood. The report focuses primarily on how states spend their Chafee funding to provide housing support for youth and concentrates on the states that, according to the plans they filed with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), indicated they would spend the maximum 30 percent on room and board. The report also addresses child welfare agencies that draw on . . .