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Viewpoint: ‘E.T.’ Hurts Foster Kids, Should Be Reheard
In May 2009, the AOC published the "Final Report and Action Plan" of
the Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care, created by former Chief Justice Ronald George and chaired by former
Justice Carlos Moreno. That report contained recommendations to the Judicial Council for improving the outcomes for
foster children under the jurisdiction of the state’s juvenile courts.
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News Hawk Review, 2011:
Is the Los Angeles Foster Care System Watching Out for Children?
A Los Angeles Times story on Monday told of the death of 2 year old Vyctorya "Tori" Sandoval, a young girl who had been returned to her long troubled biological parents. The tragic irony is that the co-founder of a foster family agency that contracted with the county to provide care to the girl wrote a letter last fall outlining the risks of returning the little girl to her biological parents. "It is tragic that it takes another death of a child who is supposed to be under the protection of the juvenile court to get people concerned about what is happening in the Los Angeles County foster care system," says Margaret Coyne, Executive Director of Advokids, a legal advocacy nonprofit organization for children in foster care..... ( read more » )
The Trial Lawyer - Winter, 2008:
Doing Good Helping The Lawyers Who Help Foster Children
There are more than 86,000 children in foster care in California, over 40% of whom are under the age of three. Infants – babies less than twelve months old – are the largest group to enter, remain and re-:enter the foster care system. The future facing these children is daunting. Foster care is supposed to be temporary, and infants and children who enter foster care need to be placed in secure, and potentially permanent homes, in case their return to their parents is not possible. Potentially permanent placements at the outset assures that children do not linger in the foster care system and suffer emotional and developmental harm from multiple placements. The fate of children who linger in care is abysmal. Advokids educates and advocates for early, stable, and permanent homes, especially for infants and children who are passing critical child development benchmarks....... ( read more » )
San Francisco CBS-Local affiliate:
Students Rising Above: Advokids Hotline Client Shanita Talton
Shanita was 19 years old when she called Advokids’ free telephone hotline concerned about her little brothers and sisters in foster care. She asked for our help. Advokids explained the legal guardianship process to Shanita and reached out to our colleague, Robbi Cook JD and asked Robbi to petition the Alameda Juvenile Court to have Shanita appointed guardian of her siblings, no easy task. They prevailed and Robbi provided all services free of charge!.... ( more » )
