The Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance Bulletin
Weekly Bulletin — 11/3/05
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Upcoming FYA Events
Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care
Fredi Juni Receives a 2005 Adoption Excellence Award
Chafee Assessment now on-line
House Ways and Means Cuts IV-E Foster Care
Group Home Administrator Initial Certification Training
ILSP Recruiting Holiday Families for Emancipated Youth
UC Berkeley Application ‘Cram Nights’
 
Upcoming FYA Events
 

FYA Professional Development Training: Tuesday, November 8th

The next FYA Professional Development Training will be held on Tuesday, November 8th, 9:30-12:30, and will focus on the topic of Cultural Competency. The training will take place at the ILSP Office, 2647 International Blvd, Suite 312, Oakland. Coffee and snacks will be served.

FYA Brown Bag Lunch for Management Staff: November 10th

Space is still available for the next FYA Brown Bag Lunch for Management Staff, which will focus on the topic of Leadership Skills. The lunch will be held on Thursday, November 10th, 12:00-2:00 at Ross House, Conference Room of Casey Family Programs, 485 Ninth Street, near the 12th Street BART station, Oakland. Participants should bring their own lunch.

These trainings are joint projects of FYA, Seneca Center, and Chabot FKCE. To RSVP, email Amy Freeman at afreeman@fosteryouthalliance.org or call 510-444-4025, x235.

FYA Membership Meeting: November 18th

Hear updates about the new foster care legislation at the next FYA Membership Meeting on Friday, November 18th, 9:30-11:30 at the ILSP Office, 2647 International Blvd, Suite 312, Oakland.

 
Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care
 

Assemblyperson Karen Bass from Los Angeles is chairing a newly formed Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care. Members of the committee include Alameda County’s own Loni Hancock and Wilma Chan, as well as San Francisco’s Mark Leno. To view a complete list of committee members click here.

The committee will focus on two critical foster care issues, emancipation and kinship care. The first hearing of the select committee is scheduled on November 21st in Los Angeles. Click here to read the November 1st editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle about the newly formed Select Committee.

 
Fredi Juni Receives a 2005 Adoption Excellence Award
 
Fredi Juni of Alameda County Department of Children and Family Services received a 2005 Adoption Excellence Award for her work “…towards achieving permanence through adoption and other lifelong commitments to children in foster care…” Click here to read more about Ms. Juni’s accomplishments and other award winners.

FYA thanks Ms. Juni for her work and congratulates her on receiving this award.
 
Chafee Assessment now on-line
 
Casey Family Programs is pleased to announce that the Chafee Assessment is now on-line at http://www.chafee.org/ and ready for use with youth, alumni of care, and secondary reporters for youth and alumni. Casey built this assessment in collaboration with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The assessment captures all primary outcome elements of Chafee data, based on the original data set published by the Administration for Children and Families in December 2003.

Everyone is invited to sample various other tools, instruments, and curricula found at both http://www.caseylifeskills.org/ and http://www.chafee.org/. Please keep in mind it costs your state nothing to utilize these assessments.

Casey built this tool because they want states to use every single dollar they receive for independent living services for youth, not for building data systems. Casey Family Programs has invested the capacity, staff, resources, and will to build these tools for you and they hope they will serve you well and that they will help you direct precious funding toward helping your young people.
 
House Ways and Means Cuts IV-E Foster Care
 
(From the Children's Monitor Online Vol. 18, Issue 42: 10/31/2005)

On October 26, the House Ways and Means Committee voted 22-17 for a $9 billion package of budget cuts, including at least $600 million in Title IV-E foster care cuts. The vote was along party lines, with two members absent. For a list of Ways and Means Committee members, go to http://waysandmeans.house.gov.

The bill would repeal the Rosales v. Thompson decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Mariana Island. More than 5,000 children in foster kinship care would be affected by the repeal--more than 4,000 in California alone. The repeal of Rosales would result in cuts of just under $400 million over the next five years.

For more information on Rosales v. Thompson, visit http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/rosales.htm.
 
Group Home Administrator Initial Certification Training
 
Seneca Center and the City College of San Francisco are pleased to offer the Group Home Administrator 40-Hour Initial Certification Training from November 7 - November18. Click here to see the flyer for details of the course. Participants can register online at www.senecacenter.org. Contact training@senecacenter.org or call (510) 317-1446, ext. 411 with any questions.
 
ILSP Recruiting Holiday Families for Emancipated Youth
 
The ILSP After Care Program is recruiting families to host emancipated youth during the holidays with the goal of developing ongoing mentoring relationships. Click here to see the flyer, and click here to download an application.
 
UC Berkeley Application ‘Cram Nights’
 
The ILSP Aftercare Program and MINDS (Multicultural Initiative for the Negotiation of Diversity & Support Services) are hosting “UC Berkeley Application Cram Nights” for students applying to UC Berkeley. The cram nights will be held on Friday, November 18th and Saturday, November 19th from 6:00-10:00 p.m. at the Student Learning Center, Rm 100 Cesar Chavez, UC Berkeley, and on Monday, November 28th and Tuesday, November 29th, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at Laney College, 900 Fallon Street, Room F-170B, Oakland. Click here to download the flyer for more details.
 
 
 

A coalition of youth, service providers, and community organizations, Foster Youth Alliance is dedicated to empowering foster youth as they transition to adulthood. FYA promotes a seamless system of care in Alameda County, California, through maximum coordination, strong advocacy and strategic resource development.
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