The prospective group members are youth between the age of 15- 21 years of age who are in treatment foster care at the Martin Pollak Project, Inc who will benefit from attending group sessions targeted at building life skills. The group members will be referred by their case managers at Martin Pollak. Youth who are on their way to transitioning to independent living will be eligible based upon the belief they have life skills due to their readiness of transitioning. Race, gender, or sexuality will not interfere with a candidate eligibility to participate in group. However, youth under 15 years of age will not be eligible for the life skills group due to the goal of the group preparing youth to potentially transition to YAI, and they would not
