Landmark Studies Reveal Direct Cash Grants Boost Employment, Improve Well-being, Stability for NYC Youth Exiting Foster Care, Without Negative Consequences
Children’s Defense Fund
JUNE 23, 2025
In the summer of 2023, YouthNPower: Transforming Care launched the first direct cash transfer pilot in the United States designed by and for young people who had aged out of foster care. Many young people who age out of the foster care system in New York City face significant precarity.
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