Guides

Youth Career Guide

Fostering Careers: A Roadmap to Your First Job

This interactive guide is designed to help youth navigate career exploration. Through various activities, youth are able to explore what documents and steps are needed to land their first job.

Caregiver Companion Guide

Fostering Careers: A Guide for Supportive Adults Helping Youth

This guide will offer comprehensive information and activities to engage a young adult in thinking about work and their future career. This is a companion guide to the Fostering Careers: A Roadmap to Your First Job.

A Postsecondary Education Planning Guide for Adults Supporting California's Foster Youth

This guide is designed to equip adult supporters with the necessary information to assist California’s youth between grades 6-12 with experience in foster care to achieve their postsecondary educational and career goals. 

College and Career Bound: A Planning Guide for 9th - 11th Grade Students in Foster Care

This step-by-step guide is designed to assist California’s youth between grades 9th – 11th grades with experiences in foster care to achieve their college and career goals. 

College and Career Bound: A Planning Guide for 12th Grade Students in Foster Care

This step-by-step guide is designed to assist California’s youth in 12th grade with experiences in foster care to achieve their college and career goals. 

Career Advancement/Employment for Foster Youth

DCFS Automated Referral System (ARS) Referral Form

This form can be completed for youth, ages 14-24, who are interested in participating in a 120-hour paid work experience program. 

Turning Dreams Into Degrees (Pt. 1)

JBAY Education Course Materials (Grades 6-10)

This course will empower caregivers, including STRTP staff and resource families, to discuss the value of higher education with the youth in their care and provide ideas for how they can play an active role in supporting these youth to college. 

Turning Dreams Into Degrees (Pt. 2)

JBAY Education Course Materials (Grades 11-12)

This course will help caregivers, including STRTP staff and resource families, to understand how to support the youth in their care to make a smooth transition from high school to college. 

Building a Workforce & Career Development System for Opportunity Youth

The LA Story

This report shares the story of how two local coalitions with over 100 partners aligned their collective impact initiatives, resources, and skills to creaty systemic change in the Los Angeles region.

Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways for Opportunity Youth

Bay Area Transition-Age Youth Workforce Initiative

The purpose of this Guide to Local Action and its frameworks is to help guide communities, and in particular Workforce Development Boards and their system partners, in expanding access to and improving the quality of workforce and career development services.

Connecting youth to the opportunities and resources they need to achieve economic mobility and flourish in their personal lives.