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Rights & Reporting Complaints
The Michigan Foster Youth Bill of Rights helps you understand what you're entitled to while in foster care—like safety, respect, family connections...
Rights & Reporting Complaints
An Ombudsman (a word from Sweden that means "representative") is someone who helps protect the rights of kids and teens in foster care. In Michigan...
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Transition to Adulthood
Michigan's Independent Living (IL) Programs support current and former foster youth as they work toward adulthood. These programs offer help with...
Health & Wellbeing
Medicaid is basic health insurance that is available to foster youth or former foster youth who are eligible. Your foster care worker has the...
School-Based & Campus
Youth in Transition (YIT) is Michigan’s name for the federal Chafee funding program. It provides money to help young people who were in foster care...