Foster Focus
Each year, the Department of Homeland Security, border patrol, and law enforcement apprehend more than 100,000 immigrant youth who have no legal status. Most are deported to their home countries, but about ten percent of the youth remain, having arrived without parents or guardians. The Department...
Getting help of any kind from the cash-strapped government is hard these days. But when a parent is deemed unfit to raise his or her child, the state steps in, and that's how California becomes a parent – a foster parent. In fact, California is responsible for more foster youth...
The state budget cuts that eliminated the emancipated youth stipend also reduced funding for other programs that support foster youth, and counties around the Bay Area are still reeling. My story took me to Contra Costa County, but I spoke to administrators from other counties about the...
Social services agencies throughout CA get more than 450,000 calls a year that allege abuse or neglect of children. If these allegations are accurate, children are removed from homes and placed in the foster care system.
In California, there are more than 80,000 children in foster care. The...
My story on homeless students eventually took me to Martinez in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, but it started in Richmond, part of the West Contra Costa district.
At a public meeting with officials from the Federal Reserve, community members tried to convey the devastating impact of...
Carletta Sue Kay
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