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8/23/2021
Jeremy Loudenback
Under a plan approved by the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month, California counties will be able to provide more job-training and career-readiness services to current and former foster youth — a group that has long struggled with high rates of unemployment.
2/6/2020
Sara Tiano
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create the county’s first Youth Commission, answering long-standing calls from youth advocates to give young people a seat at the table shaping policies and programs that impact their lives.
1/23/2020
As the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors moved to make big investments Tuesday toward stemming the county’s homelessness crisis, they voted to direct more of that money to support the growing number of youth experiencing homelessness.
11/25/2019
Over the next month, Los Angeles County will roll out an electronic system that supporters say will make it easier for youth in foster care to enroll in programs in the county’s workforce system.
3/11/2016
Thomisha Rader
While watching the movie White Oleander, I couldn’t imagine myself being in foster care. But not too long after, when I was 16, my siblings and I were put into foster care after living with our grandparents most of our lives.
