Media Coverage of TAY Issues
San Francisco Examiner reports on need for youth in foster care to have option of extended care
‘It kind of threw me off for the first month,’ Evans said, recalling the sudden responsibility of having to pay his own bills and shop for his own groceries. Evans, now 20, lives by himself in a Daly City apartment. He is taking general studies courses at City College of San Francisco and hopes to become an auto mechanic.
But while he said he was thriving on his own, he was happy to hear about a new law that will let current foster children stay in the system until they turn 21…”
Source: Amy Crawford, San Francisco Examiner, January 8, 2012
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New York Times reports on drop in aid for child care while need increases
“BALTIMORE — With states under pressure to cut their budgets and federal stimulus money gone, low-income working parents are facing a paradox. Just when they have to work longer hours to make ends meet, they are losing access to the thing they need most to stay on the job: a government subsidy that helps pay for child care…”
Source: Sabrina Tavernise, NYTimes, December 13, 2011
L.A. Times showcases state-wide extension of foster care starting 2012
To ensure that the funds behind the new law are leveraged to their full potential, more needs to be done to figure out what types of assistance work best for which types of youth…”
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SF Chronicle profiles Youth Commissioner on her life work with LGBT homeless youth
“Considering that she spent the better part of two years without reliable shelter, 20-year-old Mia has built a resume to make any trust-funded Ivy Leaguer blush.
She has toured the country to raise awareness of homophobic policies on college campuses…
Source: David Wagner, San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2011
KALW Crosscurrents interviews Bay Area former foster youth about California investing in their education
Jetaine Hart, a former foster youth and current educational mentor in Alameda County, argues that’s where we should be putting resources to help foster kids – kids who often shuffle from school to school and have unstable home lives…”Source: Holly Kernan, KALW Crosscurrents, November 29, 2011
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Youth Today opines about dual involvment of youth in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and connections to major struggles in adulthood
“Los Angeles youths who exit both foster care and juvenile justice earn less as young adults and cost the public more than youths who only exit foster care, and are more than twice as likely to have been treated for a serious mental illness, according to a study released today by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation…”
Source: Youth Today, November 9, 2011
New America Media chronicles San Francisco’s often invisible black homeless youth
“At 18, Valerie Klinker was kicked out of her grandmother’s house in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. Despite being without a roof, alternating from parks to cars to SROs, Klinker says she never identified as homeless, a fact that, in the eyes of the city, made her all but invisible…”
Source: New America Media, November 14, 2011
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PBS investigates nat’l study that shows 5,100 kids in foster care after parents deported
Nearly 397,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2011 — up from more than 392,000 in 2010. Since Obama took office, his administration has deported more than a million people…”
Source: Gretchen Gavett, PBS, November 4, 2011
Experts: Half of foster kids quit high school
“I just started to not really care about high school because I figured I’m just going to move anyway — why does it matter?” said Sommer, who was told it would take an extra year and a half to graduate to make up for credits he lost changing schools…
Source: Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press, October 30, 2011
San Francisco Conservation Corps featured in national Resource Recycling Magazine
The job-trainees, known as “corps-members,” typically come from low-income neighborhoods and have often fallen through the cracks of the city’s education syste …Click Here to read the rest!…
Source: San Francisco Conservation Corps, October 30, 2011
