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Our Mission

Just In Time for Foster Youth (JIT) provides caring support, urgent guidance, and crucial resources for foster youth at the most critical points in their transition to an independent, productive life. Our solution creates essential hope, measurable success, and helps break the needless cycle of child abuse, homelessness, and crime.

Our Unique Purpose

JIT intervenes at critical junctures when a little help can make the difference between a perilous and a promising young life. It is the only volunteer-driven organization in San Diego to assist all former foster youth with is the resources needed to ensure school, job, and life success.

Although they may receive subsidized housing or scholarships from other sources, former foster youth lack essential resources. JIT steps in with the daily ingredients a family might offer: immediate emergency financial aid, basic home furnishings and, most importantly, the continuous personal connection essential to long-term results.

That’s why we focus on all former foster youth, regardless of other program participation — as long as they are striving for self-sufficiency by attending college/vocational school and/or working a significant number of hours.