Normal ____________ help youth develop interests, gain skills and build lasting, ____________ relationships. But because of real and ____________ constraints, youth are often ____________ the chance to do every day ____________ essential for their successful ____________ to adulthood.
As a result, youth who “age out” of foster care have worse life outcomes than their peers, including: ____________, ____________, and ____________. Because of these ____________, foster youth don’t get critical chances to learn and grow.
These youth are often denied the chance to ____________ in the everyday activities that are essential to ____________ into young adults. Caregivers need to help youth in care have normal experiences for their age, so they can ____________ the key markers of child and adolescent ____________.
Choice of words for the blanks:
| experiences
development
homelessness
perceived
activities
denied
transition
supportive
unemployment
achieve
poverty
maturing
participate
constraints
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