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A Foster Youth’s Story Destiny Alvarado, FCNI Youth PartnerVoice of an FCNI StaffNo one’s path in life is straight, without mountains to climb and valleys to cross. For foster youth, their mountains often appear much too early in life--oftentimes at …
When it was first enacted in 2013, California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was seen as a way to focus extra resources on the education of foster youth, English language learners and low-income youth in the state. A new brief outlines some …
Celebrating Our Youth’s SuccessesMarie Hughes, FCNI Education Support Services Manager Voice of an FCNI Staff“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” –Malcom X This quote comes to mind as I …
The Chronicle of Social Change is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI), a group of 12 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships. The program is overseen …
J. Cortez III was just 16 years old when he proved to the court he was independent and could be legally emancipated from his mother, though he’d been on his own since he was 12. He’d spent years avoiding the …
Suspended multiple times as a student, Juan Peña now fights to keep kids in class. As an organizer for Los Angeles advocacy group Youth Justice Coalition, he’s supporting legislation that would ban willful defiance suspensions in schools statewide. Critics have …
One of the most common skills you’ll find on many job postings is the requirement to solve problems. As an Employment Counsellor, I notice the relative ease with which many people happily add the ability to solve problems to their …
Yesterday I published my assessment of how the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work is evolving into something very special and I encouraged readers to view the January 30th webinar featuring one of the 12 networks, Building Financial Capability and …
Despite a long history of supporting foster youth’s academic success, California failed to comply with a federal deadline requiring all states to submit plans on how to pay for those students’ transportation to school.
VisionQuest – Johannus Boots In the recently published book In Search of Self: Exploring Student Identity Development, editor Chad Hanson writes: “Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, …
