The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research
100 episodes
2 weeks ago
This is a podcast series to explore the resources and strategies that are effective in helping youth prepare for aging out of the foster care system and transitioning into adulthood.
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This is a podcast series to explore the resources and strategies that are effective in helping youth prepare for aging out of the foster care system and transitioning into adulthood.
Episode 101: Interview with Liberty Thompson from JEM Friends, Inc. (Boise, ID)
The Aging Out Podcast
48 minutes 11 seconds
11 months ago
Episode 101: Interview with Liberty Thompson from JEM Friends, Inc. (Boise, ID)
In this episode, Lynn Tonini interviews Liberty Thompson, Executive Director of JEM Friends, Inc. in Boise, Idaho. Liberty shared how her interest in the challenges that youth aging out of care face developed from a friendship with a girl in foster care growing up. She described the four pillars of support that they provide youth: housing, community, life skills classes, and independent living planning. She also covers the four phases of their program, which takes youth from finishing education to housing readiness.
The Aging Out Podcast
This is a podcast series to explore the resources and strategies that are effective in helping youth prepare for aging out of the foster care system and transitioning into adulthood.
