Foster Youth
According to the U.S. Department of Education, “A positive pre-K–12 education experience has the potential to be a powerful counterweight to the abuse, neglect, separation, impermanence, and other barriers these vulnerable [foster] students experience.” Therefore, let's strive to be the changemakers by providing the most welcoming environment from day one of stepping onto any PESD campus.
Resources
Advocating for Your Foster or Kinship Child at School
Creating a Family (2021)
Explains how to support your foster youth in an educational setting and why this support is important to education success.
10 Resources for Foster Parents
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2018)
Provides 10 resources for foster parents and families to help them parent children in their care and navigate the child welfare system. Resources include a blog post on keeping siblings together, a website for raising grandchildren, a magazine written by parents who have experienced the child welfare system, and more.
Helping Foster Students Cope with Separation
Sesame Street Communities
Provides resources for providers and families to help children in out-of-home care cope with their separation from their separation from their parents, their placements in care, and reunification.
This Foster Youth Rights Handbook was made possible through the collaboration of the California Office of the Foster Care Ombudsperson, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, and many stakeholders across California. We believe that empowering foster youth with information about their rights and services will create safer and more secure futures for foster youth across the state of California.
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