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Caregivers!
This page includes resources to help you with educating foster youth about financial literacy along with some resources to support your role as a caregiver.
Teaching Resources
The CFPB compiled an extensive resource for teaching all things money to kids between the ages of three and eighteen.
A wealth of lesson plans for useful, everyday concepts and skills related to personal finance.
An in depth, advanced course for high school students that covers all the necesary concepts for preparing to be a young adult.
Foster Resources
DCFS' official page for government-sourced funding for foster caregivers. Additional funding may come from Specialized Care or Intensive Services.
Questbridge is a portal through which underserved, high-achieving youth can acess scholarships from top universities.
ACR provides free legal counsel to foster families in California. Its Caregiver Support Initiative hosts online meetings in which caregivers of foster families may seek legal advice.
Fostering UNITY provides caregivers in the greater Los Angeles area with free counseling.