Activities for Foster Parents to Do With Youth in Their Home

• Ready, Set, Fly: A Parents Guide to Teaching Life Skills
• Money Pals: I Know Where I'm Going, But Will My Cash Keep Up?

Quick tips:

• Assign the youth chores.
• Give the youth the opportunity to budget and spend money.
• Role-play situations that the youth might encounter.
• Help the youth learn to use public transportation.
• Help the youth plan for future living arrangements by budgeting with real numbers (i.e. build a budget using newspapers to research what jobs pay and the cost of apartments).