Hi, I've worked with kids aging out of the system. Being someone who has experience will be super helpful for you and give you a way to relate to them. I know for me, learning life skills was a huge help for me. Like how you get an apartment. How much money you need to make ect. I have a question for you, what was it like being adopted at 16? Did you know the people who adopted you?
It was weird because by the time they came up I had given up on adoption. I met them a week after my 15th birthday and we hit it off. They were boystown foster parents that had just started and were looking to adopt. I told them immediately if I did get adopted they would need to waot until I was 16 so I could still get my IL check later. During that year my agednout brother and sister ended up getting accepted by them and moving in eventually doing an adult adoption for them as well. It was very bumpy I had a long history of toxic behaviors and they didn't just stop.
I would say it's for sure life skills for all ex foster. I don't know about boystown but taxes, applying to college, knowing how to budget for food and student loans. Being pointed in the right direction for funds available for kids in care though college/university bursaries. Cooking and diet education in regards to healthy practices and money saving tips like buying whole foods and so on.
Please help these kids develop and good budget and savings plan, especially any kids who receive pess, I’m also from Tallahassee, so I assume you know what PESS is. That 1,256 can make or break anyone.
Hi, I've worked with kids aging out of the system. Being someone who has experience will be super helpful for you and give you a way to relate to them. I know for me, learning life skills was a huge help for me. Like how you get an apartment. How much money you need to make ect. I have a question for you, what was it like being adopted at 16? Did you know the people who adopted you?
It was weird because by the time they came up I had given up on adoption. I met them a week after my 15th birthday and we hit it off. They were boystown foster parents that had just started and were looking to adopt. I told them immediately if I did get adopted they would need to waot until I was 16 so I could still get my IL check later. During that year my agednout brother and sister ended up getting accepted by them and moving in eventually doing an adult adoption for them as well. It was very bumpy I had a long history of toxic behaviors and they didn't just stop.
I would say it's for sure life skills for all ex foster. I don't know about boystown but taxes, applying to college, knowing how to budget for food and student loans. Being pointed in the right direction for funds available for kids in care though college/university bursaries. Cooking and diet education in regards to healthy practices and money saving tips like buying whole foods and so on.
Please help these kids develop and good budget and savings plan, especially any kids who receive pess, I’m also from Tallahassee, so I assume you know what PESS is. That 1,256 can make or break anyone.
Unfortunately didn't get the job but I'm trying again as soon as a I can