Preventing Identity Theft: Ensuring a Great Financial Start of Adulthood for Foster Youth
When: 9/24/2024
Where: Virtual Meeting - Join Meeting

Can you imagine being a young adult getting ready to start living life on your own and not being able to qualify for a bank account, a job, benefits, or to be able to rent a place to live? All because someone has stolen your identity. Then what?
This is what many foster youth face when they age out of the system and start their lives as adults, because unbeknownst to them, their identity was stolen while they were in foster care.
What Can You Do to Help?
USE YOUR VOICE!
Help us understand what's important to you take our SURVEY.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
- REVIEW the latest Government Reports from the Office of the Inspector General about foster children and credit checks.
- JOIN US on our upcoming Free Webinar September 24th, 8:00-9:00 pm (ET). Register for the Free Webinar.
Collaborate with your state or local foster parent organization to advocate your state legislature to:
- Conduct credit checks of all three credit reporting agencies (CRAs) for children aged 14 or older who are in foster care.
- Ensure that your state has the capacity to conduct credit checks and to interpret and resolve credit report issues effectively.
- Partner with other government agencies to develop strategies addressing issues that your state may have experienced working with credit reporting agencies (CRAs).
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