The Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance Bulletin
Weekly Bulletin — 10/19/06
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Next FYA Membership Meeting: November 17th
Convening of Bay Area Foster Youth Allies
Prop 1C
Tri City Homeless Coalition Winter Relief Family Shelter Opens
WestCoast Children’s Clinic Is Moving to Oakland
Pivotal Point Training in Holographic Memory Resolution
Media Coverage of Foster Youth
College and Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented Students
Mayor- Elect Dellums to Hold Neighbor to Neighbor Conversations
 
Next FYA Membership Meeting: November 17th
 
The next FYA Membership Meeting is scheduled for Friday, November 17th from 9:30 until 11:30 at the Alameda County ILSP Office, 2647 International Blvd, Suite 312 in Oakland.
 
COnvening of Bay Area Foster Youth Allies
 

FYA & the Alameda County and Oakland Workforce Investment Boards invite you to a convening of Bay Area Foster Youth Allies including leaders from Community Colleges, Child Welfare, Workforce Investment and Community Based Organizations on November 9th from 10:00 to 3:00 at Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Hearing Room 3..

Topic: Increasing Access and Success Rates for Foster Youth
in Higher Education

Special Guest: Tim Bonnel, Student Financial Assistance Programs Coordinator, California College System Office

Space is limited. To RSVP or for more information contact Amy Freeman at

510- 444-4025 ext 234 or afreeman@acfya.org.

Click here for a flyer.

 
Prop 1C
 
Prop 1C will provide $50 million for housing former foster and other homeless youth and is on the November ballot in California.

One of the wonderful things that Prop 1C will do is provide $50 million to create housing for former foster and other homeless youth. Click here to read about easy ways to get involved, including endorsing Prop 1C. For more information about the bond measure click here for a fact sheet.

Click here to read an October 8th editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle on the bond package.
 
Tri City Homeless Coalition Winter Relief Family Shelter Opens
 
The Winter Relief Family Shelter will open November 1st and will remain open to provide shelter, case management services, counseling and a variety of other services through April 2007. This is a good way for clients to gain access to many other great programs at Tri-City Homeless Coalition such as Sunrise Village Shelter, Project Independence, and many of other resources to housing that we may have. The shelter sites are located in Fremont and Newark (a local church hosts the families for a month at time). We welcome single and two-parent families (don't need to be married to stay together in the shelter). For more information or to enter into the shelter, please call Kara Carnahan, HOPE Project Manager at 510-378-7917.

 
WestCoast Children’s Clinic Is Moving to Oakland
 
FYA member organization WestCoast Children's Clinic, a community-based psychology clinic, is moving to Oakland! By the end of October, WCC will be based at its new home in the Fruitvale district. Its El Cerrito offices will remain open as a satellite office. Check out their new website, www.westcoastcc.org to learn about the innovative ways Westcoast serves foster children and their families. Stay tuned for the Open House next Spring.
 
Pivotal Point Training in Holographic Memory Resolution
 
HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY RESOLUTION”
Levels I & II

Location: Downtown Oakland

Level I - Friday November 10, 2006 9AM-5PM
Level II - Saturday & Sunday November 11 & 12, 2006 9AM-5PM
Both Levels 1 & 2: $450

"Holographic Memory Resolution” is a new mind-body therapy which resolves painful memories caused by physical and emotional trauma. Presenter Brent M. Baum, ICADC, CCH, LISAC, is an internationally recognized author, trainer, and trauma resolution specialist who has worked with over 11,000 trauma survivors, including officers and medical personnel from the Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Sponsored by Pivotal Point Youth Services, Inc.
For more information and to enroll, please contact:
La Tronda Lumpkins, LCSW Intern 510-536-5424 or Dr. Victoria Bentley 707-279-8876

Click here for a flyer.
 
Media Coverage Of Foster Youth
 
Click here and scroll down to the second letter to read a letter to the editor by Sam Cobbs, Executive Director of The First Place Fund for Youth.
 
College & Financial Aid Guide for Undocumented Students
 
Click here to download a copy of "The College & Financial Aid Guide for: AB540 Undocumented Immigrant Students" from the USC Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, a collaboration between the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California, the Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund, and Maria Lucia Chavez.

Since Assembly Bill 540 passed in 2001, more than 5,000 undocumented students in California have had improved financial access to higher education, though many more remain unaware of the law as well as the rights and opportunities available to them in the United States.
 
Mayor-Elect Dellums to hold Neighbor to Neighbor Conversations
 
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD & ENCOURAGE FOSTER YOUTH AND
CONCERNED CITIZENS TO ATTEND!!!!

NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR CONVERSATIONS
Topic: Education, Arts, and Youth

SATURDAY OCTOBER 21, 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

McCLYMONDS HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
2607 MYRTLE
OAKLAND, CA

For more info, click here.

 
 
 

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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