Youth in the Transitional Living Program (TLP) live in one of their shared residences which are staffed around-the-clock with Lawrence Hall Life Skills Educators. Life skills groups teach budgeting, employment skills, career planning, financial competence, time management, and basic apartment upkeep to prepare them for independent living. Their TLP prepares youth for the Independent Living Program or shared housing after they age out of DCFS care.

Helps older youth transition to living on their own. Youth acquire practical living skills and are helped with the move from system dependence to independence.

This collaborative project serves transition-aged youth (age 18-24) experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Barriers are address that limit access to housing, such as income, lack of education, background, or discrimination. Tailored services provide a path to independent living through transitional and rapid-re-housing models.

Foster Care programs are designed to find safe, secure, and nurturing homes for children who cannot live with their families. Services offered: - Licensing, training, and becoming a foster parent. - Stable foster placements for children and adolescents. - Specialized care plans for youth with special needs (mental, behavioral, medical, and developmental). - Independent living opportunity for older adolescents to transition from foster care to an independent lifestyle. - Finding permanent solutions for children in foster care (returning to biological parents, kinship/guardianship, and adoption).

Kids Above All's Emerge Program helps young adults in the city of Chicago and Lake County, between the ages of 18 and 24, who are experiencing homelessness to achieve self-sufficiency through housing support and case management.Emerge in Chicago offers both transitional and rapid rehousing for youth ages 18-24. Kids Above All's Emerge Program in Lake County provides rapid rehousing to youth ages 18-24. Both program accept both individuals or youth with children of their own. In additional to housing, Kids Above All also provides wrap-around services.

Kids Above All's Emerge Program helps young adults in the city of Chicago and Lake County, between the ages of 18 and 24, who are experiencing homelessness to achieve self-sufficiency through housing support and case management.Emerge in Chicago offers both transitional and rapid rehousing for youth ages 18-24. Kids Above All's Emerge Program in Lake County provides rapid rehousing to youth ages 18-24. Both program accept both individuals or youth with children of their own. In additional to housing, Kids Above All also provides wrap-around services.

Shelter's Transitional Living Program (TLP) is a two-year, voluntary program for young people ages 17-21 who are assigned male at birth. It helps residents achieve self-sufficiency and independence.Young people join TLP because they want to lead the everyday, healthy, productive life they were denied through no fault of their own. They often come to TLP lacking the basic life skills that most take for granted, like budgeting finances, applying for a job, grocery shopping, or even doing the laundry. TLP teaches these and other vital, foundational lessons.

The Neon Youth program pays a rental subsidy directly to the landlord. The participants are provided with case management, clinical counseling, employment case management, and referrals to other services such as education and legal. The program's purpose is to help youth become self-sufficient, exit to permanent housing, maintain or increase income, employment, and/or benefits, exit with a high school diploma or GED, and increase independent living skills. Participants are placed into scattered-site apartments in the city of Chicago with independent landlords.