Supervised Apartment Living (SAL)

This service empowers youth to work toward independence and self-sufficiency while still receiving support and supervision. Individuals build skills while attending school, working, and developing other life skills.

Eligibility:

• Youth must live in northern Iowa
• Youth must be 16 ½ years old to live in the first phase of SAL, a “Clustered Site”
• Youth must be 17 years old to live in the second phase of SAL, a “Scattered Site”
• Youth living in a “Scattered Site” must also first successfully live in a “Clustered Site”

To refer a youth into SALS, please fill out your referral form and send it to Health and Human Services of Iowa

SALS is the least restrictive type of foster care placement in which the living arrangement provides eligible youth between 16½ and 20 years of age with an environment where they can experience living in the community with less supervision than that provided by a foster family or QRTP setting. Services and supports are aimed at preparing them for self-sufficiency and children in SAL may live in either: