EVALUATING HOUSING PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH WHO AGE OUT OF FOSTER CARE

As part of the HYAOFC study, the research team conducted a review of the literature, profiled nearly 60 state and local programs that provided housing or housing assistance to youth who have aged out of foster care, and developed a program typology (Dworsky et al., 2012). Patterns observed across a number of key dimensions suggested that most of the programs could be categorized as falling into one of three broad groups: (1) programs that provide single-site housing and a high level of supervision, (2) programs that provide scattered-site housing or rental assistance and a low level of supervision, and (3) programs that provide more than one type of housing with different levels of supervision.1 (Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of programs within each category.)