An Employment Training and Job Placement Program for Foster Youth Making the Transition to Adulthood in Cook County, Illinois

This new report from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago describes the results of a study that used administrative data to better understand the need for employment-related services and supports among youth in foster care and how one community-based employment training and job placement program in Chicago is trying to address those needs. Among other things, the report describes the characteristics and placement histories of the foster youth the program serves, their engagement in employment training activities, and their placement in subsidized jobs.