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CONTACT:
Tracy Schroth
Director of Communications
(510) 835-8098, x3013
The National Center for Youth Law has been working with the San Francisco Chronicle on its ongoing editorial campaign to reform foster care, providing data and other information.
The goal of the campaign is to win passage of key foster care legislation, including NCYL-sponsored AB 863 (authored by Assembly Member Karen Bass), which provides for greater statewide leadership and collaboration in the foster care system. Hearings on that legislation are scheduled to begin in January 2006.
NCYL’s AB 1633 (authored by Assembly Member Noreen Evans), which provides much needed support to youth transitioning out of care, was signed by the governor in October, 2005. The legislation will help foster youth complete their high school education, as well as increase their access to public benefits.
Since Sept. 11, 2005, the Chronicle has run a series of editorials on foster care reform. It has called for greater statewide collaboration and leadership in the foster care system, smaller caseloads, and greater support for kinship caregivers. It has called for the development of programs to reduce the number of children in care, and endorsed key pieces of legislation aimed at improving the lives of children in the system as well as those transitioning out of care.
Here is a link to the entire series of editorials in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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