Plain-language, source-cited guides to the benefits, rights, and free training available to youth in foster care, youth aging out, and young people leaving the juvenile justice system. Written for caseworkers, counselors, mentors, and youth themselves.
The tuition-free training that exists right now, plus every major Texas foster-youth benefit: PAL, ETV, the college tuition waiver, extended foster care, Medicaid to 25, and TWC priority of service.
Read the guide →What "aging out" means, the honest statistics, and a deadline-by-deadline checklist of what a Texas youth keeps after 18 — through 21, 23, and 25.
Read the guide →Reentry by the numbers, WIOA out-of-school-youth eligibility for justice-involved young people, and how tuition-free career training changes the odds.
Read the guide →Guides are reviewed by the Azgari Foundation team and cite primary sources (DFPS, TWC, Texas HHS, TJJD, OJJDP, Chapin Hall, Annie E. Casey Foundation). Program rules change — always confirm with the linked agency.
