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Pick Up Some Warm Red Yarn and Knit Scarves for Foster Youth! The Orphan Foundation of America is coordinating Valentine’s Day Care Packages for foster youth in colleges across the country. They need 2,500 hand-knitted or crocheted red scarves to include in the care packages. I don’t know how to knit, but I recruited […]
Eight Napa teens start their own youth-led service center to help emancipating foster youth transition to life on their own.
Wow, I’m impressed with their drive and quick results.
These youth want to be an example to their peers…. well they’re a fabulous example to adults working in Child Welfare and non-profits too! Way to […]
Alameda County recently sponsored the 10th Annual Calling Out of Names of Waiting Children. The event, covered by CBS 5, called attention to all the local youth waiting for their own Forever Family. I’ll check with Alameda County to see about matches made this year. Last year, I spoke with a woman […]
A few posts ago, I wrote about Karen Bass in our State Congress who is now heading up a new task force on foster care. Yesterday, the Chronicle printed a story about the very first meeting of the Select Committee on Foster Care. The article also lists contact information for all State […]
A lesbian couple - with extensive experience working with abused and neglected children - wants to parent a special-needs child in Missouri but the state’s Dept. of Social Services denies them.
My response (besides “What the…?!”) is:
“Hey Lisa and Dawn, please, move to California! We’d love to have you take care of one of […]
Cross your fingers! There’s someone in State Congress who really cares. Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista (Los Angeles County) has requested a Select Committee on Foster Care to make the 80,000 kids in foster care a state priority. The Chronicle’s editorial explains all about it, but the most important part of the whole editorial is the […]
I am currently reading Another Place at the Table, by Kathy Harrison - a foster mom.
I’d love to meet her some day. She seems like a great mom, friend, and advocate for kids. No wonder she’s been honored by so many different groups. Here’s an interesting interview and reading guide from the publisher’s […]
Binders aid youths leaving foster care
I like this idea…emancipating youth not only get a list of resources out there to help them, but they get invaluable personal info from their time in foster care. Is there anything missing from these files that emancipating youth wish was included? Let me know!