Independent Living Program - Florida's Center for Child Welfare

2) Youth Piece – The second component requires that outcome data is collected onyouth in foster care at age 17 (baseline population), and then at ages 19 and 21(follow-up population). The following youth outcomes must be reported by the youthregardless of other information and must also come from the SACWIS system. Financial self-sufficiency Experience with homelessness Educational attainment Positive adult connections High risk behavior Access to health insuranceA new cohort is surveyed every three years. Questions are designed to ask about the last twoyears of the young adult’s life.In order to be in compliance with the NYTD rules, Florida must submit data [defined as a leastone answer to one of the questions] on at least 60% of youth discharged from foster care that arepart of the follow-up population.Penalty for non-compliance is a maximum of 5% annually and does not affect the Education andTraining Voucher (ETV) allocation.