February 2012
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An Editorial from the SF Chronicle
Various studies have shown that foster youth leaving the system at 18 are far more likely to become homeless or incarcerated than to attend college. Dollars for a program that has shown it can keep them in school, and help them prosper, represent one of the wisest investments this state can make.
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CASA's Conondrum: Research, Efficacy, and Trust...
Every year, Edelman PR releases its “Trust Barometer” (see below), which assesses the types of people (e.g. CEOs, friends) and/or institutions (e.g. NGOs, Think Tanks) that consumers look and listen to when they make opinions about the quality of an organization.[1] This year, regular employees and people “like yourself” gained great credibility. CEOs and government officials lost notable...
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Potential Loss of CA Foster Child Education Fund
Governor Jerry Brown is considering overturning CA’s existing Foster Youth Services education program, which has helped foster kids navigate the education system for the past 30 years. Brown instead suggests collapsing the Foster Youth Services program into a larger education fund that individual schools/ districts could then distribute as needed across a handful of programs—...
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“Everyone is much more interested in hearing directly from young people,”...”
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Huffington Post’s coverage of the foster youth march on Sacramento. Amongst other things, the group is asking for additional support for Foster youth seeking college education.
January 2012
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Children Left Behind →
A great series by Doug Sovern of CBS San Francisco on outcomes for CA’s foster youth.
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Bottom-line benefit — from SFCASA
The Fostering Connections Act, signed into law by President Bush in October 2008, offers reimbursement to states that extend foster care to age 21. A newly released study of foster youth in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa showed that the public cost of extended support to age 21 was more than offset by the return in investment. Illinois was the only one of those states that allowed foster youth...
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seventy percent: turning our attention to foster...
This winter, as part of a non-profit fellowship program, I am working with a 501c3 called SFCASA, or San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates. Court Appointed Special Advocates are volunteer community members who work as mentors for foster children, spending time with them every week to build a trusting relationship, to learn about their needs and wants, and to then testify on their behalf...
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