Abstract
A survey of life-skills knowledge among foster adolescents was conducted in three placement settings; foster family homes, group homes/institutions, and apartments. Within the apartment sub-group, two types of apartments were compared; cluster-site and scattered-site. The study group consisted of 534 older adolescents in state care. A 50-item multiple-choice inventory was used to gauge life-skills knowledge. Adolescents in scattered-site apartment placements scored highest, followed by youths in foster family placements. Youths in group home/institutional placements scored lowest. The results suggest a need to improve life-skills preparation in group home/ institutional settings, to target minority males for life-skills enhancement in all placement settings, and whenever possible to utilize apartment placements to supplement foster home, group home, and institutional placements.
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