Trends To Watch
The TAYSF team is closely connected to the community and collectively has over 40 years of experience advocating for transitional age youth. Hear what they have to say about their work and their take on what important – a trends to watch – on issues affecting San Francisco’s transitional age youth.
San Francsico’s TAY Housing: Updates March 2011
With continued support and public advocacy on behalf of San Francisco’s most vulnerable youth in need of housing, the Booker T. Washington Community Center and Affordable Housing Development and the conversion of the King Edward II Hotel projects should be constructed and livable within the next couple of years…
Full Story »How 20-Something’s Fare Rough Times: Some of Us Go Home, Others Wish They Had One
I recommend looking through two timely articles that underscore the coming of age experience of today’s youth in a torpid economy. The first article, from the New York Times Magazine, highlights the modern trend of huge numbers of nest-ridden and unemployed baccalaureates, a.k.a. “boomerang” youth…
By Justin Slaughter, TAYSF
Full Story »Numbers Can Lie
By Justin Slaughter
AmeriCorps VISTA Intern
Last Monday I read the front page headline of the San Francisco Examiner someone had dropped at my desk, and this government statistic stared me in the face: San Francisco places children into foster care at rate of 80 percent above state average…
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