Abstract
Since 2006 foster youth aging out of the system has continued to grow and the numbers show they do not have families for support. The Transitional Housing Placement Plus Program (THP-Plus) assists former foster youth in maintaining housing, which is a main obstacle for youth when they leave the Child Welfare System. A smaller county in Northern California was reviewed on the process Social Workers use when they have a youth aging out of the system that needs housing. The purpose of the project was to examine how often, when, and why Social Workers working for the Child Welfare System utilize the THP-Plus Program. The research design used was cross-sectional qualitative survey methodology. Data was gathered by questionnaires from 11 Social Workers and from a second data set, which was the agency in charge of providing the THP-Plus services to youth aging out of the system. The findings suggest that smaller counties in California need the THP-Plus Program and the Social Workers do utilize the program but there was no significant correlations between the variables that were selected.