These services are directed at helping youth live independently or assisting unmarried youth with planning for the birth or care of a child.

The services may be provided to:

• youth, 16 years of age or older, for whom DCFS has legal responsibility to help them live independently from adult supervision and achieve economic self-sufficiency;
• youth who are part of the Supporting Emancipated Youth Services program for former youth in care who reengage with the department and juvenile court;
• youth who are high school graduates and have been awarded scholarships; and
• unmarried, pregnant, and pregnant and parenting youth for whom DCFS is legally responsible.

Services for youth for whom DCFS is legally responsible may include:

• counseling/advocacy;
• day care for children of unmarried youth;
• homemaker;
• family planning; and
• maintenance of payments for foster family home, relative home or residential care payments, except that maternity home payment is limited to 90 days maximum.