Home › States › utah

Utah

close

Uh Oh! You're using the Internet Explorer 6 Browser. Our site doesn't work as well for this browser, and in general it's 4 years old now and not very good.

To get the maximum amount of pleasure while browsing this and other websites you can download for free any one of these:


But if you can't download a new version on this computer you'll still be ok. Just not great! ;-P

subscribe
Syndicate content

contacts

Transition Into Adult Living Youth Liason
Jode Littlepage
phone: 801-538-3931
email: jlittlep@utah.gov
Utah Department of Human Services, Just for Youth Website

What’s New @ Utah

SLC.png

Life after foster care is an uphill battle

Salt Lake Tribune, May 5th, 2010, By Brooke Adams, Salt Lake City, UT -

Research » Extended help, social network may be critical to success, study finds.

Until she entered foster care, Bianca Flores was too busy tending to her three younger siblings to attend school.

Additional Resources

Websites of interest:

National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development's Utah State Facts Page

Juan1.png

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

I-am-waiting-schylar.png

Statistics

There are
2,285 children in foster care in the state of Utah.


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

2,285 children in foster care
42.3% of foster children are between ages of 0 and 5
31.3% of foster children are between ages of 6 and 12

Syndicate content