United Friends of the Children

Pathways housing program - United Friends' pathways housing program provides emancipated foster youth in los angeles county between the ages of 18 and 24 with housing, career/vocational counseling and development, educational mentoring and assistance, health and mental health services, life skills training, and advocacy counseling. United Friends' relational approach emphasizes commitment and consistency within a framework that demands increasing levels of personal responsibility and initiative to equip and enable foster youth to become self-sufficient adults.

Scholars program - United Friends' scholars program allows for a 12-year continuum of support for foster youth as they navigate critical school and life transitions during the most vulnerable years of their lives. With a relationship-based approach at its core, the scholars program ensures that foster youth in grades 6-12 and former foster youth enrolled in community college or a bachelor's degree-granting institution have the skills and support to persist to and through college. Entering the workforce with a college degree or technical certificate, our students are much more likely to find a career and build a stable life for themselves.