The Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth (hereafter referred to as the “Midwest Study”) is a prospective study that was designed, in part, to provide a comprehensive picture of how foster youth fare as they transition to adulthood since the John Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 became law.
Two earlier reports from the Midwest Study (Courtney, Terao, & Bost, 2004; Courtney, Dworsky, Ruth, Keller, Havlicek, & Bost, 2005) described what was learned from survey data collected from young people in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, first at the age of 17 or 18 and then again at age 19. This third report is based on interviews conducted with the young people when they were 21 years old.
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