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Project LIFE is working in our region to build meaningful relationships to enhance the lives of our youth and assist them to develop permanent connections, by offering several resources and services for youth in foster care between the ages of 14 to 21 and youth adopted after the age of 16. Project LIFE, in the Northern Region, offers innovative opportunities for youth to learn, network, and grow. A few of these opportunities include, the Northern Region Youth Advisory Council (known to our youth as the Northern Advocates, Voices of Change), regional youth conferences, and ongoing Independent Living workshops. The Project LIFE team will also help youth prepare for their Family Partnership Meetings and identify resources for their needs. In addition, Project LIFE, provides training opportunities to professionals that work with our foster care youth in many different capacities, such as the Casey Life Skills Assessment, Overview of the Independent Living/ETV Program, and developing Youth/Adult Partnerships. Project LIFE is working to empower our youth, so that their voices are heard on new levels throughout our region and our state. If you have questions, desire any trainings (and being creative with trainings is always welcomed) or need some assistance with starting some local independent living workshops, please contact me; no land is too far whether it be in the big cities of Arlington and Alexandria or the rural areas of Louisa and Greene Counties, with all the other towns and cities in between! I am here to help provide you with information, resources, training, event planning, and other opportunities for youth success!
Northern Region IL Committee Meeting Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Northern Region VDSS Regional Office 170 West Shirley Avenue, Suite 200, Warrenton, VA 20186 Please contact Kim Gilley at kgilley@umfs.org or Craig Simmons at crsimmons@umfs.org if you have any questions.
Northern Region College Tour Monday, July 22 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Northern Region IL Committee and Project LIFE would like to invite you to register your youth for a tour of three wonderful four-year universities in Central Virginia. The tour will be limited to youth in care who are rising juniors or seniors, as well as those that have graduated or received their GED. The youth will be visiting the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and Virginia State University in Petersburg. A maximum of 25-30 youth will be accepted to participate in the tour.
Youth will be selected on a first come, first serve basis, based on the answers to the Youth Questionnaire (to be completed by the youth) as well as the Registration and Confidential Character Form (to be completed by the worker). Both forms must be completed and submitted before a youth can be considered. Below are the links to the two forms:
Youth Questionnaire (to be completed by the youth)
Registration and Character Form (to be completed by the worker)
The deadline for submissions is June 7th.
If you have questions about any upcoming events, please contact Kim Gilley at (434) 906-1269 or kgilley@umfs.org or Craig Simmons at (804) 239-1066 or crsimmons@umfs.org.