What You Can Expect with Sunrise
Sunrise has created an innovative and lifechanging Independent Living program for 18-to-21 year-olds who have aged out of the state’s care. As a participant, you will be given the tools you need to build your own future as an independent adult through one of our multiple programs located across Kentucky.
Sunrise will pay for the rent and utilities on your apartment. Your fully furnished apartment will include personal and cleaning supplies as well as an initial supply of food. On a monthly basis, you will be given money for clothing, food, allowance, and personal items. Additional money can be earned for education, work support, and cell phone use.
Sunrise will work with you and your state worker to design a program around your education and employment needs. A Sunrise team member will meet with you weekly to assist you in building your independence readiness and skill level as you move through a plan that’s uniquely yours. Sunrise will provide assistance with transportation and offer skills-training classes that include money management, job search skills, proper nutrition, volunteering, and more.
Upon completion of the program at age 21, you may have the opportunity to transfer the apartment lease and utilities to your name and keep the furnishings. We want to help you become the best version of yourself.
Who Can Be Accepted
Clients must have reached their 18th birthday in order to be admitted to the IL program and may remain in the program until their 21st birthday. Both genders are accepted. Admittance will be based on the client’s most recent behavioral issues as well as his or her desire to continue educational and workforce skills. We normally do not consider the client’s current location as a determining factor. Sunrise will be paid a level 3 rate throughout the entire time clients are in the program.
Current Locations of our Apartments
Contact Sunrise for the current list of program locations.
Specific Admission Criteria
Contact Sunrise Central Intake for current admission criteria.
What About Parenting Teens
Contact Sunrise to discuss the services currently available to parenting teens.
Support, Supervision, and Therapeutic Services Offered
Contact Sunrise for current program and service details.
How to Refer to the Program
Call Sunrise Central Intake at 502-538-1059 for referral assistance. Do not send protected health information through an ordinary email or website contact form.
VentureON
VentureON is Sunrise’s pioneering, grantfunded program that surrounds you with a care plan team and additional resources to better equip you for all that life can offer.
Here’s what you will receive through VentureON:
- Job training and support
- Coaching in areas such as driving, budgeting, and grocery shopping.
- A monthly work stipend (if working) to offset work expenses
- A monthly stipend for school expenses (if enrolled in school)
- A quarterly “step up to success bonus” to build your savings account
- A Christian mentor if you desire more personalized support
Your VentureON care plan team will work together to create a path of life for you to address personal, emotional, and spiritual areas, along with education and work related goals.
Since 1999, more than 230,000 young adults
have left the foster care system without a family or other support system. A gloomy picture for these young people – a distressing picture for society. At Sunrise, we’re committed to changing the path of life for these young people,
“VentureON ensures the successful transition of young people into contributing adulthood.”
VentureON connects people aging out with resources that can help them find housing, jobs, and an education to build their own future and surrounds the young adult with a care plan team, a mentor, partnerships with employers, and safe, stable housing.
Youth who age out of state care at age 18 can find themselves without the necessary support and guidance they need to become successful adults. Planning and preparing for independent living, providing connections to safe and stable adults, and creating opportunities for education, jobs, independent living skills, and solid, caring adults is key to success, and Sunrise is the hope and guidance these young adults need to create for themselves a path of life.
With apartments and staff working in ten Kentucky cities, Sunrise Independent Living and VentureON services are proven, life-changing, and growing. Sunrise is proud to be the first organization to take on this challenge from a statewide perspective and even more proud to be God’s Word in action as commanded in Galatians in the words, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” The challenge is we cannot do this work alone and need your help, involvement, and support to change lives in a very real way.
The Cost To Do Nothing
On average, for every young person who ages out, taxpayers and communities pay $300,000 in social costs over that person’s lifetime. (Social costs equal taxpayer-funded costs just as public assistance, incarceration, and costs absorbed by the community.)
How it works
You can help
- Become a mentor
- Hire one of our young people
- Donate gently used furniture and household items
- Invite a speaker to your church, business, or civic group
- Give to help a young person become successful