YOUR SOLUTIONS GENERAL STORE
The Official Store for Your Solutions Foster Care Youth Project; Using our spending dollars to provide Housing for youth aged out of the foster care system
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Our primary Goal is Housing is to assist aged out youth whom have younger sibling still within the system
REUNITING FAMILIES IN THEIR OWN HOME WHEN POSSIBLE
The primary creation of Your Solutions General Store: Provide a Financial vehicle where the Community through their purchases made with our store that part of that purchase goes toward Housing Development for; (training & development toward the creating head of household) first step toward family reunification for foster care youth.
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Community Resources
Your Solutions understands that just providing financial resources is just one side; community resources being networked with a shared goal family reunification, has to be the other side to that end we have partnered with community resources also with an invite for you to join us in this worth while effort.
Our Comment To YOU
To achieve our overall objectives: Our customers are our number ONE PRIORITY so we will try to bring you products that are useful to you and your family while also products that our target population (homeless youth) will find useful.
Let me begin by saying the value to any city is its neighborhoods supported by the families that make-up those neighborhoods. Stable young families bring years of value throughout the community, through property renting to home ownership, school attendance, shopping, and through employment. So it’s safe to say that our biggest single contributor is also our most value resource the family.
The above referenced store was developed to anchor the unionization of a variety of community resources with the primary focus on family reunification that will affect neighborhoods; through rebuilding, stabilization of strengthened families which add value to their neighborhood and city.
The conclusion of research:
Research done by Your Solution LLC/Foster Care Youth Project: beginning 2005 with twenty young people from the foster care system identified the following concerns…” youth voices”:
- When families with three or more members enter the foster care system most are separated and many lose that family connection and sometimes that family bond
- In many cases family members outside foster care don’t keep in touch with those within the system especially when they spend long periods within the system
Many children become emotionally detached because of multiple foster care placements; accompanied by fear of being emotionally hurt because of never knowing when that placement will end and relationships severed again
Many youth experience gaps in their education when they have to change school districts many have issues in adjustment to new surrounding and making new friends
Family members age out of the system at different periods many don’t reconnect to other family member within the system or those that have left the system especially when there’s a gap of a few years.
Twenty Youth Research and Pilot program Conducted from 2005-2010 | Four 16 years old boys , Three 16 years old girls, Five 17 year olds boys |
continued | Six 18 years old boys Two 18 years old girls |
African American boys | Three 16 years old/Six 18 years old |
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African American Girls | Three 16 year girls |
Caucasian Girls | One 18 years old Girl |
Arab Girls | One 18 years old Girl |
Caucasian boys | One 16 year old/one 18 year old |
Homeless | Eight /two girls/six boys |
Foster Care | Twelve /Four 16 years boys /Three 16 years old girls Five 17 years old boys |
Family | Three brothers/16, 17, 18-year-old |
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Results of the Twenty youth |
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Four went to Bakers College in Flint Michigan | Three African-American boys/ One Caucasian girl |
Two went to Wayne State University | Two African American boys |
Four went up North to MTI | One Caucasian girl/ Three African American boys |
Five started with a Landscaping company and after | Four African American boys One girl |
Two years open their own Landscaping business |
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Three received internships with Mentors | Two African American boys One girl |
from International Detroit Black Expo |
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Two dropouts in the early stages | One Caucasian boy One African American boy |
