What is the Independent Living Program?

Idaho’s Independent Living Program assists youth ages 15 to 21 develop the skills necessary to make a successful transition from foster care to independent living. Youth who have been in care for 90 cumulative days after their 15th birthday are eligible for Independent Living services.  Through the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program, the Independent Living Program accomplishes the following:

• Helps youth transition to self-sufficiency;
• Helps youth receive the education, training and services necessary to obtain employment;
• Helps youth prepare for and enter postsecondary training and educational institutions;
• Provides personal and emotional support to youth aging out of foster care through mentors and the promotion of interactions with dedicated adults;
• Provides financial, housing, counseling, employment, education and other appropriate support and services to former foster care recipients between 18 and 21 years of age to complement their own efforts to achieve self-sufficiency and to assure that program participants recognize and accept their personal responsibility for preparing for and then making the transition into adulthood;
• Makes available vouchers for education and training, including postsecondary education, to youth who have aged out of foster care; and
• Provides services to youth who, after attaining 16 years of age, have left foster care for kinship guardianship or adoption.

• ETV Application (Word)
• ETV Application (.pdf format)
• ETV Description & Eligibility
• Idaho Colleges & Universities

 

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