FOSTER YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER | CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
Multidisciplinary center that serves as a resource for emancipating youth and former foster youth ages 18-25. Provides life-planning and legal resource information for foster youth, including limited representation. Specific areas include understanding legal documents, including leases, loan documents, living wills and powers of attorney; accessing independent living needs, including health care, public benefits, Benefit Bank applications, insurance, housing and unemployment; accessing higher education, including application assistance, understanding school loans and financial aid; restoring personal information, including accessing birth certificates, name change, driver's license, curing identity theft and expunging juvenile records; and developing skills in self-advocacy within the court system, school, community and for future independence.
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LSS 211 Central Ohio
Physical Address
303 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215
Hours
Mon-Fri 8 am-5 pm. Appointments can be made outside of normal hours as necessary.
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Voice
Application process
Telephone.
Fee
None.
Eligibility
Foster youth and former foster youth ages 16-25.
Agency info
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
Private university. Law school offers legal clinic.