Project MYSELF

Project MYSELF is a multi-service program for youth in post-secondary educational settings.  Project MYSELF participants are automatically enrolled into Project MYSELF upon receiving financial assistance from the New Jersey Foster Care Scholars Program (NJFC).  Through NJFC, young adults aging-out of the child welfare system also receive the support, guidance and encouragement needed to stay in and succeed in school.

Each Project MYSELF participant is assigned a support coach, who is available to help them with issues related to academic functioning, emotional resiliency, job-readiness, physical wellness, and community, peer and adult partnerships.

Project MYSELF services include:
•    Support coaching (Tele-coaching)
•    Skills groups
•    E-mentoring
•    Crisis intervention
•    Monthly outreach (Newsletter, FaceBook etc)

This program is designed to help young adults in the following areas:
•    Improve academic performance
•    Increase post-secondary education retention
•    Complete post-secondary education
•    Develop essential life skills and competencies.  

Project Myself Newsletter:

The Project MYSELF newsletter will be published once a month as a way to provide helpful information to youth aging out of New Jersey's child welfare system.

Previous editions of the newsletter focused on topics such as money management, education and legal rights.

For more information about Project MYSELF, please contact:
Lesley Dixon, Senior Project Coordinator
(732) 932-8758, ext. 13
ldixon@ssw.rutgers.edu

To read more about the Project MYSELF program or past issues of the newsletter, click on the links below.