ARTICLE TAG

AmeriCorps

Youth Services Insider

4/30/2021

Biden Picks Longtime Innovator for National Service Board

President Joe Biden has selected Shirley Sacha Sagawa, a longtime champion of youth and national service, to be a member of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent government agency that makes grants to support service and volunteer organizations.

Youth Services Insider

4/1/2020

What’s In The Coronavirus Stimulus for Youth and Family Services

Congress passed, and President Trump has signed, the CARES Act, a massive piece of stimulus legislation aimed at shoring up the American economy and protecting workers and businesses in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

Cuomo new york child welfare 2020

1/10/2020

Foster Care Firewalls and Race-Blind Removals: New York Governor’s Provocative Plans for Child Welfare

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) delivered his tenth annual state of the state address yesterday, proposing liberal policy priorities including legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding a child tax credit, and guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers.

9/24/2019

iFoster’s AmeriCorps Program Earns National Prize

  A new California workforce program that has offered transition-age foster youth paid service work as part of the state’s AmeriCorps program has already garnered national recognition. Last week, iFoster, the Truckee, California, nonprofit that helped develop the Transition-Age Youth (TAY) AmeriCorps program, was recognized with the “Best New AmeriCorps Program” award from the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps.

4/9/2019

Serving the Future: California Foster Youth Start AmeriCorps Adventure

For young people who have survived often-turbulent stays in and out of the foster care system, trusting adults and systems can be hard. “After all, we’ve been through foster care and the crazy situations we’ve been in, if you’ve never been there, you’ll never be able to understand,” said Kamiah Manning, an 18-year-old foster youth from Los Angeles.

Youth Services Insider

3/21/2019

Trump’s 2020 Budget for Family and Youth Services

President Donald Trump released his 2020 spending proposal, dubbed “A Budget for a Better America,” late last week. On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget and various cabinet agencies released the fine print.

    Youth Services Insider

    3/13/2018

    Trump Taps Elizabeth Darling to Lead Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

    President Trump has announced that Elizabeth Darling is his choice to serve as the commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF), one of the top child welfare jobs at the U.S.

    Youth Services Insider

    5/26/2017

    Updated: Amid Cuts to Youth Services, Trump Includes Big Increase to Child Welfare Entitlement

    Note: CLICK HERE for an updated Trump Budget Request chart, which includes the 2017 appropriations figures from the recent omnibus deal reached in early May. President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal includes a slate of deep cuts and eliminations of programs aimed at serving youth and families, but includes a hefty increase in the amount spent on an entitlement for foster care and adoption assistance.

    9/6/2016

    Three Orgs Join Forces to Increase Service Year Opportunities for Youth

    Three nonprofit organizations officially announced a merger today to form Service Year Alliance, an organization whose mission is to make a year of paid, full-time service a common opportunity for young Americans.