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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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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Living on the streets of California is a deadly affair. The life expectancy of an unsheltered person is 50, according to national estimates, nearly 30 years less than that of the average Californian. As homelessness spirals out of control throughout the state, so too do deaths on the street, but...