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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Los niños en hogares de crianza a menudo se pierden las lecciones de música o los juegos de las ligas menores. Ésa es una de las consecuencias de cambiar de hogar o de vivir con una familia con un presupuesto ajustado. Ahora California tiene un...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Foster kids often miss out on Little League or music lessons. That’s one of the consequences of changing homes, or living with a family on a tight budget. Now California has a new plan to give them opportunities for the kinds of extracurricular activities that...
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Los defensores de las familias de acogida están presionando a los legisladores para que salven el Sistema de Respuesta Urgente Familiar del corte presupuestario. California enfrenta un déficit de $37.9 mil millones y la propuesta inicial del gobernador Gavin Newsom reduce a cero el presupuesto de $30 millones del...
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Advocates for foster families are pressing lawmakers to save the Family Urgent Response System from the budget ax. California faces a $37.9 billion deficit and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initial proposal zeros out the program’s $30 million budget. Susanna Kniffen, senior director of child welfare policy for the nonprofit Children Now, said the program provides a...
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Alrededor de 300 adultos jóvenes que abandonan el sistema de crianza en California recibirán ahora un cheque mensual para ayudarlos a llegar a fin de mes, como parte del primer programa de ingresos garantizados del estado. Unas 150 personas en Ventura recibirán 1.000 dólares al mes y otras 150...
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About 300 young adults leaving foster care in California will now receive a monthly check to help them make ends meet, part of the state’s first guaranteed income program. Some 150 people in Ventura will receive $1,000 a month and another 150 in San Francisco will receive $1,200 dollars a...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s teenage foster youth are doing better than the national average in several important ways, according to a new report. The Annie E. Casey Foundation research found 84 percent of California young people who leave the foster care system at age 21 have...
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Andrea Sears Public News Service HARTFORD, Conn. – Positive interactions with the child-welfare system can be particularly critical for adolescents, according to a recent report. Discussions of foster care and interventions by social services often focus on younger children. But the report from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif – California’s foster-care system looks after 60,000 children a year, and a new study points out ways to make improvements, by giving foster parents more of a voice. Researchers at The Annie E. Casey Foundation suggest that state agencies make their treatment...