• Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
  Full text.

Resources

• The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999: Enhancing Youth Access to Health Care
  This article from the July-August 2000 Journal of Poverty Law and Policy discusses the option for states to extend Medicaid eligibility for young people who are under 21 and who on their 18th birthdays were in foster care under the custody of the state. In addition to implementing this option, states can take many steps through their child welfare agencies and Medicaid agencies to ensure that young people leaving foster care enroll in Medicaid and receive the services to which they are entitled.

• Chafee National Youth in Transition Database
  This final rule, published February 26 2008, adds new regulations to require States to collect and report data to ACF on youth who are receiving independent living services and on the outcomes of certain youth who are in foster care or who age out of foster care. The final rule implements the data collection requirements of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106-169) as incorporated into the Social Security Act.

• Information Memorandum To States and Territorial Agencies Administering or Supervising the Administration of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, John F. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
  The purpose of this information memorandum from the Children's Bureau is to inform the States and Territories of the publication of a Final Rule for the National Youth in Transition Database. This final rule adds new regulations to require States to collect and report data to ACF on youth who are receiving independent living services and on the outcomes of certain youth who are in foster care or who age out of foster care. The final rule implements the data collection requirements of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106-169) as incorporated into the Social Security Act.

PowerPoint Presentation

• The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
  This presentation was developed by the Independent Living Resource Center at Hunter College School of Social Work (June 2002)

• The John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
  This presentation was developed for presentation at the 17th Annual Risky Business Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. (April 2002)

NRCFCPPP Information Packet

• Foster Care Independence Act - 1999 by Ben Graf (May 2002)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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