Transitional Housing Program Plus (THP Plus)

Each year in California, over 4,000 youth exit the foster care system when they turn 18 and are no longer eligible for foster care. These "emancipated foster youth" commonly leave the foster care system without a place to live, a job, a high school diploma or the consistent support of a caring adult. Without assistance during this difficult transition, former foster youth do not fare well, and experience rates of homelessness, unemployment and incarceration far above their peers.

In April 2010 Children First FFA was awarded a grant to implement the THP Plus program in Tehama County

This program is designed to help foster youth make a safe, successful transition into the community. The THP PLUS program seeks to reduce homelessness among former foster youth. The California Department of Social Services has found this program to be very effective at helping former foster youth to achieve stable housing, living wage employment and a higher education.