Location: 485 Ninth Street in Oakland (The Ross House, conference room of the Casey Family Programs) near the 12th Street Bart Station.

Time: 12:00 until 2:00

Topics and Dates:

• Managing Employees: Labor Law - Thursday, September 8, 2005
• Leadership Skills - Thursday, November 10, 2005
• Team Building Skills for Managers - Thursday, January 5, 2006
• Supervision Skills - Thursday, March 2, 2006
• Conducting Effective Evaluations Thursday, May 4, 2006
• Termination Best Practices - Thursday, July 6, 2006

Please RSVP for the September Training by Tuesday, September 6th to: Amy Freeman at 510 444-4025 ext 235 or afreeman@fosteryouthalliance.org

Trainings are open FYA Members and Staff from organizations and agencies serving foster youth.

Topic: How to Recognize and Help Older Youth Cope with Learning Disabilities

Date: Tuesday, September 13th, from 9:30 until 12:30

Location: Alameda County ILSP 2647 International Boulevard Suite 312

This training is a joint project of FYA, Seneca Center and The Chabot FKCE.

Please RSVP for this training by Friday, September 9th to Amy Freeman: afreeman@acfya.org or 510 444-4025 ext. 235
To view the training calendar please click the link below http://www.acfya.org/trainingcalendar.htm

Date: August 25, 2005 1:00 - 6:00pm

Location: Washington Manor Park, San Leandro

The ACFPA will furnish soft drinks, hot dogs, hamburgers, paper goods, potato salad, and Tina's fabulous cobbler. Come join us for time to visit and relax. Bring $2.00 for each of your kids to swim + swim suit. We'll play volleyball, and other games. Bring and salad or dessert. We'll be looking for you!

Directions: Take 880 to Washington Ave. exit. Go west of 880 to Manor Blvd. Make a right turn on Zelma St. to the park...about 2 blks.

If you get lost...call 510-331-2641 or 357-5035.

For more information, please contact Sara Razavi at 415-808-4435 or srazavi@uwba.org

Please mark this wonderful event for foster youth hosted by Renaissance Scholars Program and Smith Scholastic Society on your calendars. RSVP by September 1 to NikiAnne Feinberg: nikianne@ucsc.edu

Please Note: This event is for:
High school juniors and seniors interested in attending the University of California, ideally at Santa Cruz, either as freshman or as transfer students after having attended a community college; and Community College students planning to transfer to the University of California.

Feel free to forward this email to all concerned with serving foster youth. Hard copies are available upon request. Please click here to view the flyer.

UC Santa Cruz Campus Day

Location: Stevenson Event Center
Date and Time: Saturday, October 1, 2005 ~ 9:30am-3:30pm
Tentative Agenda

• 9:30 - 10:00 am Arrival & Sign-in (Breakfast)
• 10:00 - 10:40 Welcome
• 10:40 - 11:15 Keynote Speaker (TBA)
• 11:15 - 11:30 Break
• 11:30 - 12:15 Campus tour
• 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch with Academic Preceptors
• 1:30 - 2:15 Transfer Workshop or High School Admission Workshop
• 2:15 - 3:00 Financial Aid Workshop
• 3:00 - 3:30 pm Program enrollment, evaluations, prizes
  

Fostering Art offers a chance for youth to learn photography and tell a larger community about their lives.

• Provides creative outlets for building skills.
• Creates opportunities for positive social development.
• Promotes confidence and self-esteem

Fostering Art is a three-term program offered over the course of the academic year. Students must participate in terms one and/or two to be eligible for the third term. Weekly classes include instruction in basic photographic skills, visits to photo galleries, museums, and darkrooms, and opportunities to meet with local and visiting artists. Please click here to view the flyer.

Please refer youth to our Director, Liz Bernstein. Referral forms can be found at www.ahomewithin.org and submitted at the website. Liz will then contact each applicant to set up an interview. Liz can be reached for questions at (415) 652-1434 or at lbernstein@ahomewithin.org

I'm surveying everyone to find out if we have enough people interested in a Treasure Island Job Corps site tour.

A couple of months ago, as participants of the State's Foster Youth Employment Training and Housing Taskforce, Richard Otto (Casey Family Programs), Rosario Flores ( Alameda Workforce Investment Board), and I participated in a half day job corps site tour in Sacramento. After learning about what job corps can offer to aging out and former youth, I thought a local site tour for the HOPE collaborative would open up more service options for our aging out foster youth.

A while back, I met with Maria Palafox, Job Corps Admission Counselor for Downtown Oakland, to explore the possibility of setting up a tour. If we are interested (if we have enough people that is), she and her colleagues would arrange for the tour, which includes transportation, gourmet dishes, and other presentations. Maria and I are considering setting up this tour for late early or late September.

Based on what we (Richard, Rosario and I) saw and learned from the Sacramento tour, Job Corps has many of the critical service elements that would be helpful to aging out foster youth, especially those without concrete connections to housing, employment, education, social, and financial support. Please share this survey with staff and colleagues, and let me know if you or colleagues are interested in this tour.

Thanks,

Thou Ny
Project HOPE
510-268-2843
Nyt@acgov.org

The following information may be of interest to Oakland grantees. The 2006-2007 Oakland Community Action Partnership (OCAP) Request for Partnership (RFP) was released on August 8, 2005.

Approximately, $300,000-contigent on federal funding-will be awarded to programs to eliminate poverty and its effect on the City of Oakland. The maximum award per program is $50,000.

Please keep the following dates in mind:

• September 15, 2005-Proposals are due (postmarks will not be accepted)
• September, 2005-November, 2005-Evaluation of applications
• December 2005-Announcement Notifications Mailed
• December, 2005-Negotiation of Contract/Memorandum of Understanding
• January, 2006-December 2007 Program Implementation

The RFP document is available at: http://t.lt05.net/c.asp?hhApmNyZQm5+98U1MLNJ3QKOtLP3g/rofraA7XYZg9HA
or 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Ste. 4340, Oakland, CA 94612
For more information, please contact OCAP at 510-238-2362 or ocap@oaklandnet.com