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Contacts

Program Specialist
Diane Helton
phone: (208) 334-4932
email: heltond@dhw.idaho.gov
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Website

What’s New @ Idaho

RoadMap to Life in Foster Care

This guide is for young people in Idaho's foster care sytem. It tries to answer as many questions as it can about living in foster care.Of course, not all questions can be answered in one guide. Use this guide as a starting point.

Additional Resources

Websites of Interest:

IROCK for young adults Idaho Resources Opportunities Communities Knowledge

Idaho Child A gateway to Children's Services and Information

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Higher Education

Education Training Vouchers
You may be eligible for funding of up to $5000 per year while you are in college or a vocational or technical training program!
You may qualify if:

1. You are 18, 19 or 20 years old.

2. You are in foster care or you were in foster care as a teenager and you are a US citizen or qualified non-citizen

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Statistics

There are 1,818 children in foster care in the state of Idaho.


Who are Idaho's children waiting in the foster care system?

1,818 children in foster care
38.9% of foster children are between ages of 0 and 5
32.3% of foster children are between ages of 6 and 12

Youth Boards

Foster Youth of Idaho (FYI)

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