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Terrick Bakhit

7/15/2015

Bill Expanding Support for Calif. “Crossover” Youth Clears Assembly

Sawsan Morrar

An effort to extend financial support to California’s probation-involved foster youth cleared another legislative hurdle yesterday when Senate Bill 12 was unanimously approved by an Assembly committee. In one of its final pushes, the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed the bill in a 10-0 vote.

6/3/2015

Bill That Would Close Loophole for Crossover Youth Advances

Jeremy Loudenback

A California Senate bill aimed at boosting benefits to foster youth involved with the juvenile justice system was amended on Tuesday to ensure that those youth who were in secure confinement on their 18th birthday would not be stripped of extended foster care benefits.

3/26/2015

Widening Door on Extended Foster Care for Probation Youth

Guest Writer

In October 2014, The Imprint published a story that showed how probation-involved foster youth were being denied extended-care benefits because of an arbitrary rule that basically said if they were locked up on their 18th birthday, they were locked out of foster care.

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