The Shared Lives initiative typically offers adults with learning disabilities a place to live in a family or house share with a carer, or to regularly visit them.
Shared Lives Plus, the membership charity for schemes in the UK, is transferring this model of support to care leavers in 16 council areas across England, Scotland and Wales over the next two years.
Birmingham, Powys, Borders Council in Scotland, Portsmouth and Newcastle are among areas offering the service to care leavers aged over 16.
Others include Oxfordshire and the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Islington and Hackney.
The scheme gives “a stable, loving base for people at a time of transition, from which they can learn skills and independence which give them life-long opportunities”, said Shared Lives Plus chief executive Ewan King.
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