Vol. 6, No. 2• May 2002

Youth in transition featured in AdvoCasey

AdvoCasey, the Annie E. Casey Foundation's policy magazine, devotes its new issue to youth in transition from foster care to adulthood. “No group in the United States is more predictably headed for unhappy outcomes than young people who spend their adolescence in foster care,” announces AECF President Doug Nelson in his opening column.

The new AdvoCasey Index provides the data to prove it. Feature stories examine the gaps in New Jersey’s efforts to support teens in transition, and the results of Los Angeles County's bold experiment to assist this population.

AdvoCasey also profiles four model programs worth watching, and it interviews Gary Stangler, director of the new Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.

AdvoCasey can be found at http://www.aecf.org/publications/advocasey/fall2001/index.htm.