1. How old are you?

2. Are you          male          femaile

3. How old were you when you entered foster care?

4. How many years have you been/were you in foster care?

5. Would you share something about yourself, where you are currently living, attending school, or going to work?

6. What was your experience with transitional planning for your future after foster care? Was it with one person, or was it a meeting where you could invite other people to help you with your plan?

7. If you did have a group meetings (Transitional Living Plan, Team Decision Meeting, Child and Family Team meeting, or other) where people came together to make plans with you about your future, what was this meeting like? (for example: who attended? was this helpful? how were your ideas and goals supported?)

8. If you did not have some type of group meeting, how have you gone about planning for your future?

9. What was it like (or what would it have been like) to have people you wanted included in this transitional planning meeting?

10. If you had been in charge of organizing the group meeting, who would you have invited and why?

11. What kinds of things make it difficult or stand in your way when making your own plans for your future?

12. Is your birth family a part of your plans for the future?          Yes          No

13. If yes, in what way?

14. What advice do you have for other foster youth in planning for their future?

15. What else would you like to share with us about your experiences with foster care and planning for your future?

16. Would you be willing for us to contact you so that you could provide us with an audio recording of some of your responses? (The audio recording would possibly be included in a training video used to help people who work with teens and youth in foster care.)          Yes          No

17. If yes, could you please provide us with your first name and the best way for us to reach you?

Thank you!