Ohio
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Resources in your state
Education: College / Higher Ed
Life skills
Independent Living Program
The Independent Living Program (ILP) helps youth who are or were, in foster care to become self-sufficient adults. It gives an opportunity to learn...
Youth or Alumni Group
Education
Education: College / Higher Ed
Life skills
The website link leads to foster youth college support programs. Information is located within the Ohio Department of Higher Education website...
Youth or Alumni Group
Emergency support
Education: College / Higher Ed
Housing
Life skills
Leadership Opportunity
Independent Living Program
Ohio foster care youth, alumni, and allies are currently working to collect and share resources to support foster care youth and alumni in need of...
Rights in Foster Care
A team of young adults who experienced foster care gathered to make a foster youth rights handbook. That group is known as the Ohio Youth Advisory...
Health care
The Ohio Medicaid program includes health care coverage for youth, who aged out of foster care on or after their 18th birthday, until age 26...
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Health Care for Former Foster Youth
Did you know that young people from foster care have access to free Medicaid after they turn 18 through their 26th birthday? Qualification to access Medicaid is NOT dependant on employment or education status.
