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10/5/2018

Addressing Trauma May Be the Key to Helping Foster Youth Succeed in the Workplace

Heather Adams

Internships can often serve as an important leg up for young people trying to gain work experience and build relationships with employers. But few foster youth participate in such opportunities. A recent study of California foster youth at age 21 found that only 30 percent had completed an internship, apprenticeship or other on-the-job training in the past year.

Youth Role in Violence, Carjackings Overstated, the Sentencing Project Says

5/23/2018

California Considers a “Bat-Signal” for Foster Youth in Distress

Susan Abram

The woman used a thick extension cord on her foster children. Welts rose. Bruises formed. Fear became the norm inside the Watts neighborhood home in Los Angeles where LaToya Cooper and six other children were sent to live.

1/2/2017

What is Courage?

Guest Writer

You may know me as a writer, but I am also well known for my advocacy work with the juvenile justice system and the foster care system. I previously wrote an article about art as a form of therapy.

10/2/2016

Grief, Healing and Meditation for Los Angeles Foster Youth

Elizabeth Green

Draped over LaTeesha Pinkney’s white “Gift of Compassion” t-shirt was a long, thin necklace, carefully strung with gold beads and a dozen or so charms. Pinkney made the necklace, hand-picking each charm for some significance or memory it brought to mind.

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