The Bar-Youth Empowerment Project
Know Your Rights
Below are some links to state and local manuals that can help you understand what your rights are when you are in and leaving foster care. They also give you tips on what you need to do to move out on your own. These manuals will talk about things, like:
- How you can get scholarships to go to college;
- How to manage your money;
- Where you can get legal help if you need it; and
- How to get a job.
National Center for Youth Law’s manual for foster youth and former foster youth
Youth Law Center’s manual for youth in out of home care
Connecticut
Kids Counsel’s manual for youth in foster care
Florida
Florida Children’s First manual for youth leaving foster
care
University of Miami Law School’s brochures for foster and former foster youth
Department of Children and Families’ brochure for foster youth
Pennsylvania
Juvenile Law Center’s manual for foster and former foster
youth
Maine
Youth Leadership Team’s manual for foster and former foster
youth
North Carolina
State Youth Advocacy Office’s manual of youth rights and
responsibilities
New York
Lawyers for Children’s manual for foster and former foster
youth
New York Citizen’s Coalition for Children: manual for youth in foster care
Office of Children and Family Services: manual for youth in foster care
Oregon
Juvenile Rights Project’s manual for youth in foster care
Juvenile Rights Project’s manual for youth leaving foster care
