PARENTING YOUTH SUPPLEMENT
To best support parenting youth who are in out-of-home care (OOHC), and their children, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (Cabinet/CHFS) will ensure there are supports and services available that incorporate the research on optimal development and promote a youth’s health and development
There are occasions when a parenting youth may enter foster care with their own biological child, or birth a child after entering foster care. The parenting youth may be committed to the Cabinet; however, if there are no concerns or safety threats surrounding the youth’s ability to care for their child, the child will remain in the parentng youth’s custody. The parenting youth supplement provides compensation to the foster parent or caregiver to help meet the everyday needs of the parenting youth’s child. In retaining custody of their child, the parenting youth, with the support of their foster parent, will be able to apply for services such as child care assistance through the Division of Family Support (DFS).