Social and Life Skills Development: Preparing and Facilitating Youth for Transition into Young Adults

"This chapter reviews literature on the effectiveness of independent living programs. It describes innovative strategies at the community and State levels to prepare youth to transition to adulthood and presents evolving evidence-informed practices and assessment tools that can assist in developing youth' social capital through a network of informal key players who provide supports for youth as they transition to adulthood."

This Article was posted on September 21st, 2009 by Child Welfare Information Gateway.

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