independent living program
independent-living program. Family law. A training course designed to enable foster children who are near the age of majority to leave the foster-care system and manage their own affairs as adults. • Independent living programs provide education, training, and financial and employment counseling. They also help many foster youth in locating suitable post-foster-care housing. Permanency planning orders or case plans can — but are not required to — provide for independent living as a goal for a child in long-term foster care and describe how it is to be accomplished. See AGING-OUT; PERMANENCY PLAN.
