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J4 Social Change End of Semester Celebration
Monday April 30th, will mark our last session of Journalism for Social Change this semester. Fittingly, we will hear from former foster youth Sokhom Mao and Lily Dorman Colby, both leaders in a growing national youth-driven foster care reform movement.
Students, members of the public and any of our esteemed speakers are welcome to join the session at 5:00 PM in our customary location: The J-School Library in North Gate Hall. Immediately afterward folks are invited to join us for an end of the semester celebration in the J-School courtyard; refreshments and snacks provided.
During the Spring Semester,
April 21, 2012
filed in California, Uncategorized tagged Child Abuse, Child First, Child Welfare, FMC, Foster Care, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, Fostering Media Connections, Goldman School of Public Policy, Journalism for Social Change, Lily Dorman Colby, Sokhom Mao, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Jennifer Rodriguez is New Executive Director of Youth Law Center
Attorney Jennifer Rodriguez has been advocating on the rights of foster youth since her days with California Youth Connection, when many of her efforts resulted in legislative accomplishments including the development of a foster youth bill of rights, educational rights and services for foster youth, and increased efforts for permanence for older youth.
Now as the new Executive Director of the Youth Law Center, Rodriguez will not only be able to advocate on behalf of youth across the nation, but use her own experience growing up in the foster care system to make positive change for youth today.… Read more
April 20, 2012
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Big Foster Care Stories in 2012
While the news media’s coverage of California’s foster care system is generally driven by isolated cases of tragedy and systemic failings, another narrative exists.
Over the past twenty years, the numbers of children entering the system has been halved while lengths of stay for those that do enter foster care have also been reduced. California has led the nation in legislation that addresses the educational needs of foster youth and has built an incomplete but promising infrastructure to help foster youth transition to adulthood including the passage of landmark legislation to extend foster care in 2010.
But for all the … Read more
April 20, 2012
filed in California, Sacramento, Uncategorized tagged AB12, AB490, Amy Lemley, California, Foster Care, Foster Children, Fostering Media Connections, Goldman School of Public Policy, John Diaz, Journalism for Change, San Francisco Chronicle, The John Burton Foundation, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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