iFoster supports youth as they navigate from foster care and probation to independence. From 16 to 26, we are there to help youth smoothly develop to self-sufficiency with resources, employment, supportive services and peer navigators to guide the way. Need immediate assistance with housing, bills, food, medical coverage? iFoster is able to help with this and much more. Fill out our Need Request Form and someone from our team will reach out to you.
Intern with iFoster
iFoster’s award-winning TAY AmeriCorps Peer Navigators help current and former foster and probation youth achieve self-sufficiency and their education, employment and well-being goals. Each year, iFoster hires, trains and deploys hundreds of current/former foster and probation youth to serve 6 month paid internships embedded in local colleges, child welfare agencies and TAY-serving nonprofits to help their peers succeed. If you are passionate about helping your foster brothers and sisters AND want to serve in CA, KY, OH, NV, or NYC then apply today.
(LA County only)
Calling all LA County foster youth who want a career in healthcare! Now is your chance to get paid, hands-on experience with a path to permanent jobs in local clinics and hospitals. iFoster’s second TAY AmeriCorps program (formerly known as PHA TAY AmeriCorps) hires, trains, and deploys Community Health Ambassadors to Eisner Health clinics across LA County. This paid internship focuses on developing healthcare-specific professional skills with opportunities to interview for permanent jobs in clinics and hospitals upon successful completion.
In Their Own Words
“It is important to serve because foster youth need people who will support them, and who better to support and understand them than their own peers with lived experience. iFoster makes sure that youth are heard, and they work to express the concerns and needs of foster youth to social workers, caregivers, and other organizations with the goal of helping current and former foster youth towards a successful independent living by providing them with the resources they need.”
Shellsea Reynoso: iFoster – Digital Engagement Lead
“iFoster empowered me to learn from Coursera, so I have real-world certificates and skills I can carry into future careers. This experience has inspired me to find and create resources for my peers who are still in foster care and those exitng out of the system. I worked hard as an AmeriCorps member because I saw that thousands of other foster youth shared similar experiences. And this emboldened me to help my peers help themselves to self-sufficiency.”
Trinity Utnage: AmeriCorps Service Member
iFoster AmeriCorps Members in Action
Life After Foster Care Podcast
Join us as we explore the real stories, challenges
and triumphs of foster youth navigating their
finances. Hosted by foster youth, for foster youth
this podcast sheds light on the journey to
ndependence, stability, and success after aging out
of the system. Hear firsthand experiences, expert
advice, and valuable resources to help young people
ouild a brighter future. Whether you’re in foster care
a supporter, or an advocate, this is a space for
əmpowerment, guidance, and community
f you would like to ask a question or suggest a topic
for our next episode, click the link here!
Share Your Voice
Every year iFoster surveys thousands of youth with lived experience to get their input on the problems with the child welfare system and how to fix them. Share your voice by taking this year’s survey and read what your peers have to say in the Lived Experience Guide to Fixing Foster Care and Voice of the Community reports.
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