How to pronounce “foster care” in English

The foster care system is one that's kind of surprising for folks that ends up having youth experiencing homelessness because you think,

Her foster care case was in the county that's outside of Alameda County.

dealt with foster care and its successes and failures in a real way.

You also have some foster care ha-ha's, though.

If the foster care system, if that's failed for them, then a lot of them have been trafficked and abused from home to home.

And in this foster care home, there were six girls that-- there were many girls.

that was in foster care, group homes, and in juvenile hall.

So I mentioned the foster care prison pipeline.

So the foster care system is supposed to help you get safely back to your parents if you can.

On the foster care side, a big one came out that said if you receive federal funding from Health and Human Services, then

So like leaving a foster care placement is actually, like, a really amazing act of survival, to leave.

exploring how he grew up in foster care, which is a system that I think most of us go, that doesn't sound funny at all.

I got it out of foster care, and I got it back.

all her children taken into foster care.

If you're not treated well in foster care and are running away from a foster home that isn't supportive of you, then you

For some of my gay clients in foster care, no one has ever mentioned to them about PrEP, or the possibility of being on PrEP,

So I had to be placed in foster care.

And when I got out of the foster care system two and a half years later, I went back to the same poor community,

But when you're in the foster care system as like-- I mean, when you're in the foster care system period, and then when you're in the foster care

So this young person's been in foster care since they were 14.

to get her back enrolled in the foster care system.

And also I did a study of foster care children who are extremely outta control kids who have no prognosis to probably ever function very well

Or you might be picked up by the foster care system, placed into foster care.

and try to get queer and trans youth who are in foster care out of foster care, or back to a more permanent situation.

So 18 to 21-year-olds are allowed to be in foster care.

So still legally supposed to be able to be in foster care, right?

Why can't people-- if there are services like foster care all the way until 21, why aren't they in it?

difficult for the vast majority of families to get there the foster care situation has been remediated on some

And it was interested in two measures--hospitalization of kids in foster care placements, both indicia of parent's abuse and neglect.

Some were foster care kids.

So what we mean by that term is young people that are in the foster care system, in the juvenile justice system, and youth that

So as a transgender girl, the state foster care agency has placed them in a girls' group home, as they should, right?

So I was talking a little bit about focusing kind of on youth in foster care, juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth systems.

That can be through foster care, maybe because you're involved in a juvenile justice case.

I remember you telling me that it didn't seem like the people running the foster care agencies and from the county knew anything

would blow your mind if you talk to a Filipina kid in foster care in Richmond

And so we really started Our Space, holding foster care youth at the center.

And we also do a lot of really specific work with Alameda County Foster Care.

Many of them are undocumented, in the foster care system.

And so I think it's really easy for young people in the foster care system, especially when they're queer and trans youth of color, to get read as violent,

There's a law in California that's called the AB 12 that extended foster care to the age of 21.

actually see that this person is a grown up product of the foster care system working for someone.

level by the chips program which is a program that essentially works with foster care agencies and brings kids up

on regular visits but not nearly as many kids that we work with there in foster care as you would expect and guardians

We also have people who didn't have parents, and so they were sent to the foster care system.

in homeless-- child care providers that are working in homeless shelters, foster care centers, and child care

A lot of times, their children were in the care of the foster care system or a family member who didn't have the means to make

And the third thing is, I'm actually a proud alum of the New York City foster care system.

And before that, he spent 12 years in New York as an attorney for children in foster care and juvenile justice.