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A New Bill Could Change That","publishDate":1680958810,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Child Welfare Agencies Legally Pocket Foster Kids’ Social Security Money. A New Bill Could Change That | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In December 2019, a month after her son’s death, Patricia Baca contacted the federal government to provide for her surviving grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins, just 3 at the time, had lived a difficult first few years of life. San Diego County had removed them from their parents’ custody that year due to allegations of drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence in the home, Baca said. The brother and sister were in foster care with Baca when their father died in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to secure the children a future nest egg, Baca filed for them to receive survivor’s benefits from the Social Security Administration for children whose parents have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the twins’ legal parent at the time — the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency — that stepped in to receive their money. For the next two years, the county put their survivors’ benefits into its own coffers. Records show it was an effort to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>pay itself back for having issued monthly checks to Baca to cover the children’s basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to county and federal records Baca showed to CalMatters, the money taken totaled nearly $15,000 per child. Baca said she received foster care checks of about $1,000 a month per child, meaning the county partially recouped its costs using the Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds seizure is common among child \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/07/foster-care-youth-california/\">welfare agencies\u003c/a> in California and nationwide — and it’s legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But forces are building to halt the practice, which advocates say has been in place for at least two decades. A growing number of states are banning it, and advocates are seeking to eliminate it in California through a court challenge and a bill set to be introduced in the state Legislature next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Offsetting costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Diego County said it halted the practice last year and now saves foster youth’s benefits in reserve accounts for them. But it didn’t repay Baca’s grandchildren. She has lost two state administrative hearings trying to get the money paid back, with the county telling her it would not pay retroactively and the state’s Department of Social Services ruling it did not have jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county spokesperson declined to comment on Baca’s grandchildren’s case, citing confidentiality concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11946007 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with shoulder-length, gray hair and black outfit sits on a tan couch inside her home. A wooden coffee table is in front of the couch and holds stacks of board games, candles and random paperwork. A dark, wooden piano with sheet music is pictured in the background, along with photos on the walls.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Baca inside her home in Vista on March 31, 2023. Baca, who adopted her late son’s children, has unsuccessfully tried to get their benefits returned. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The children are now 7. Baca and her husband, both retired, had hoped the money would help their grandchildren support themselves when they’re older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been traumatized. They’ve been taken from their family and now they’ve lost a parent,” she said in an interview, adding she would say to county and state officials, “This is their money, and you’re stealing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting on behalf of foster youth in their care, agencies can apply for and receive children’s Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Patricia Baca, foster parent of two grandchildren\"]‘They’ve been traumatized. They’ve been taken from their family and now they’ve lost a parent … This is their money, and you’re stealing it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can include survivor benefits or, more commonly, a disability benefit known as Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In rarer cases they also apply for veterans’ benefits earmarked for the children of those who died in military service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>state law, counties must use the money in the child’s best interests. One allowable use is to “offset” the agencies’ costs for providing foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For youth in state custody who don’t qualify for such benefits, counties pay for foster care using existing funding — a mix of federal, state and local money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the reimbursement practices say it’s an inappropriate use of money meant for the most vulnerable young people in state custody — those with disabilities and those who will age into adulthood without parental support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster youth are at higher risk than other children of falling into poverty and homelessness in adulthood. A long-term study in California in 2020 found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.chapinhall.org/wp-content/uploads/CY_YT_RE1020.pdf\">a quarter of former foster youth were sleeping in shelters or temporarily unhoused after exiting foster care (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A regal, white building beams down onto foliage and blue skies behind it. It's California's Capitol Building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior of the state Capitol on Jan. 5, 2006, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that often, youth and their families don’t even know their county has applied for and taken their Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Culver City Democrat, is authoring a bill that would prohibit counties from using federal benefits to defray foster care costs. It also would direct child welfare agencies to use the money for the children directly, which could include preserving it for their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would apply to foster youth going forward, but it would not help those like Baca’s grandchildren who already had their benefits taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few of California’s roughly 50,000 foster kids get Social Security benefits, advocates say, but the state does not track how many have had their funds withheld by the counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County has the greatest share of the caseload, with custody of about a third of the state’s foster children. The county’s Department of Children and Family Services receives the benefits of about 600 children in its custody in any given month, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/07/foster-care-youth-california/\">spokesperson told CalMatters last year\u003c/a>. In 2021 the county took $5.4 million of children’s Supplemental Security Income or survivor benefits as reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding stream\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalMatters also reported that Kern County in 2021 offset $313,000 of its foster care costs by taking benefits from 56 youth. And San Diego County in the 2021–2022 fiscal year took about $137,000 from 13 youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/publications/child-welfare-financing-survey-sfy2018\">California’s child welfare system costs about $5 billion annually\u003c/a>, according to the research center Child Trends. The amount taken from youth benefits as reimbursement makes up a fraction of that — as much as $39 million, Bryan’s office estimates.[aside postID=news_11943932 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg']Bryan’s legislation, a placeholder that will be amended next week, has yet to be heard in a committee. It\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>comes as other states and cities have already agreed to limit the seizure of foster youth’s benefits, including Illinois, Maryland and Connecticut and the cities of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii last year stopped taking the benefits and opened bank accounts for foster youth who were receiving them. Washington state and Oregon are both weighing proposals this year to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years California’s advocates have pushed the state and counties to help foster youth apply for the federal benefits. While the children are under state and county care, county agencies have viewed the benefits as a funding stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many eligible youth do not know they can qualify, advocates say, and the application process is complex. California currently requires counties to screen foster youth for potential eligibility for Social Security assistance at the age of 16, but advocates say that leaves out many children who could be receiving it much earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Social Security, ‘a potential lifeline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bryan’s bill would require counties to screen all youth for eligibility within two months of entering foster care. It also would require the county or state agencies to notify the youth’s family and attorneys when they apply for those benefits and to provide a regular accounting of the money received on a child’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisa Lopez-Scott, staff attorney at the Youth Law Center, which is sponsoring Bryan’s bill, said this would help more children or their families continue receiving Social Security benefits even after leaving foster care. Those receiving Supplemental Security Income could get it for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a potential lifeline,” Lopez-Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child welfare agencies should receive the money on behalf of foster youth only as a matter of last resort, according to federal regulations and state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both list preferred alternatives: a child’s relative, an adult sibling or even a family friend who has demonstrated an interest in the child’s well-being.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Child welfare agencies are last on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California counties have made themselves the recipients even when other relatives were available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fiduciary duties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in Baca’s grandchildren’s case and in the case of another set of two children now suing San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children, two preteen sisters who have been in and out of foster care since they were 4 and 6, are now with an adoptive mother, Amy, who asked to be identified only by her first name to protect the children’s identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls’ biological father died a few months before the second time the girls landed in foster care. Knowing their biological mother had been receiving survivor’s benefits on behalf of the children, Amy contacted the county and the Social Security Administration, to ensure another relative would get the girls’ benefits when they were in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids are going to need those eventually,” she said. “I thought the county would collect them but put them in trust for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As their foster parent at the time, Amy wasn’t eligible to hold onto the benefits for the children. But she said the county never contacted the girls’ adult sibling or great-aunt and instead applied to receive the money itself. The county collected it for about a year, stopping after the adoption went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Most suitable payee’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Social Security spokesperson Patricia Raymond declined to comment on this case or Baca’s. She said that in cases where it must appoint someone to receive benefits on a child’s behalf,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the agency “will investigate and appoint the most suitable payee.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy, foster parent of two children\"]‘The ultimate goal for our family is to change policy. We don’t want any other child to have to have this experience. These children, more than any, need this money.’[/pullquote]The Children’s Advocacy Institute, based at the University of San Diego law school, has sued the county for Amy’s adopted children’s benefits in San Diego County Superior Court. The suit accuses the county of violating its fiduciary duty toward the children, arguing that using the funds as reimbursement was not in the girls’ best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County has not responded to the lawsuit in court and did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy and her husband now receive the benefits for the girls, ages 11 and 13. She said they use it for the children’s medical needs that the state doesn’t cover and they save the rest for college or other expenses for when the girls turn 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy said she wants the county to pay back what it took — totaling just under $25,000 — so she can add it to the girls’ fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate goal for our family is to change policy,” Amy said. “We don’t want any other child to have to have this experience. These children, more than any, need this money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her grandchildren’s survivor benefits. Counties take millions of dollars in federal benefits from foster children, says a lawmaker trying to stop it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681008322,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1992},"headData":{"title":"California Child Welfare Agencies Legally Pocket Foster Kids' Social Security Money. A New Bill Could Change That | KQED","description":"A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her grandchildren’s survivor benefits. Counties take millions of dollars in federal benefits from foster children, says a lawmaker trying to stop it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11945997/california-child-welfare-agencies-legally-pocket-foster-kids-social-security-money-a-new-bill-could-change-that","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In December 2019, a month after her son’s death, Patricia Baca contacted the federal government to provide for her surviving grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins, just 3 at the time, had lived a difficult first few years of life. San Diego County had removed them from their parents’ custody that year due to allegations of drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence in the home, Baca said. The brother and sister were in foster care with Baca when their father died in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to secure the children a future nest egg, Baca filed for them to receive survivor’s benefits from the Social Security Administration for children whose parents have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the twins’ legal parent at the time — the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency — that stepped in to receive their money. For the next two years, the county put their survivors’ benefits into its own coffers. Records show it was an effort to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>pay itself back for having issued monthly checks to Baca to cover the children’s basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to county and federal records Baca showed to CalMatters, the money taken totaled nearly $15,000 per child. Baca said she received foster care checks of about $1,000 a month per child, meaning the county partially recouped its costs using the Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds seizure is common among child \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/07/foster-care-youth-california/\">welfare agencies\u003c/a> in California and nationwide — and it’s legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But forces are building to halt the practice, which advocates say has been in place for at least two decades. A growing number of states are banning it, and advocates are seeking to eliminate it in California through a court challenge and a bill set to be introduced in the state Legislature next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Offsetting costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Diego County said it halted the practice last year and now saves foster youth’s benefits in reserve accounts for them. But it didn’t repay Baca’s grandchildren. She has lost two state administrative hearings trying to get the money paid back, with the county telling her it would not pay retroactively and the state’s Department of Social Services ruling it did not have jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county spokesperson declined to comment on Baca’s grandchildren’s case, citing confidentiality concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11946007 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with shoulder-length, gray hair and black outfit sits on a tan couch inside her home. A wooden coffee table is in front of the couch and holds stacks of board games, candles and random paperwork. A dark, wooden piano with sheet music is pictured in the background, along with photos on the walls.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMFosterYouth01-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Baca inside her home in Vista on March 31, 2023. Baca, who adopted her late son’s children, has unsuccessfully tried to get their benefits returned. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The children are now 7. Baca and her husband, both retired, had hoped the money would help their grandchildren support themselves when they’re older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been traumatized. They’ve been taken from their family and now they’ve lost a parent,” she said in an interview, adding she would say to county and state officials, “This is their money, and you’re stealing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting on behalf of foster youth in their care, agencies can apply for and receive children’s Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They’ve been traumatized. They’ve been taken from their family and now they’ve lost a parent … This is their money, and you’re stealing it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Patricia Baca, foster parent of two grandchildren","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can include survivor benefits or, more commonly, a disability benefit known as Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In rarer cases they also apply for veterans’ benefits earmarked for the children of those who died in military service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>state law, counties must use the money in the child’s best interests. One allowable use is to “offset” the agencies’ costs for providing foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For youth in state custody who don’t qualify for such benefits, counties pay for foster care using existing funding — a mix of federal, state and local money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the reimbursement practices say it’s an inappropriate use of money meant for the most vulnerable young people in state custody — those with disabilities and those who will age into adulthood without parental support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster youth are at higher risk than other children of falling into poverty and homelessness in adulthood. A long-term study in California in 2020 found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.chapinhall.org/wp-content/uploads/CY_YT_RE1020.pdf\">a quarter of former foster youth were sleeping in shelters or temporarily unhoused after exiting foster care (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A regal, white building beams down onto foliage and blue skies behind it. It's California's Capitol Building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS5102_56531571-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior of the state Capitol on Jan. 5, 2006, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that often, youth and their families don’t even know their county has applied for and taken their Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Culver City Democrat, is authoring a bill that would prohibit counties from using federal benefits to defray foster care costs. It also would direct child welfare agencies to use the money for the children directly, which could include preserving it for their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would apply to foster youth going forward, but it would not help those like Baca’s grandchildren who already had their benefits taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few of California’s roughly 50,000 foster kids get Social Security benefits, advocates say, but the state does not track how many have had their funds withheld by the counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County has the greatest share of the caseload, with custody of about a third of the state’s foster children. The county’s Department of Children and Family Services receives the benefits of about 600 children in its custody in any given month, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/07/foster-care-youth-california/\">spokesperson told CalMatters last year\u003c/a>. In 2021 the county took $5.4 million of children’s Supplemental Security Income or survivor benefits as reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding stream\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalMatters also reported that Kern County in 2021 offset $313,000 of its foster care costs by taking benefits from 56 youth. And San Diego County in the 2021–2022 fiscal year took about $137,000 from 13 youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/publications/child-welfare-financing-survey-sfy2018\">California’s child welfare system costs about $5 billion annually\u003c/a>, according to the research center Child Trends. The amount taken from youth benefits as reimbursement makes up a fraction of that — as much as $39 million, Bryan’s office estimates.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11943932","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bryan’s legislation, a placeholder that will be amended next week, has yet to be heard in a committee. It\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>comes as other states and cities have already agreed to limit the seizure of foster youth’s benefits, including Illinois, Maryland and Connecticut and the cities of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii last year stopped taking the benefits and opened bank accounts for foster youth who were receiving them. Washington state and Oregon are both weighing proposals this year to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years California’s advocates have pushed the state and counties to help foster youth apply for the federal benefits. While the children are under state and county care, county agencies have viewed the benefits as a funding stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many eligible youth do not know they can qualify, advocates say, and the application process is complex. California currently requires counties to screen foster youth for potential eligibility for Social Security assistance at the age of 16, but advocates say that leaves out many children who could be receiving it much earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Social Security, ‘a potential lifeline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bryan’s bill would require counties to screen all youth for eligibility within two months of entering foster care. It also would require the county or state agencies to notify the youth’s family and attorneys when they apply for those benefits and to provide a regular accounting of the money received on a child’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisa Lopez-Scott, staff attorney at the Youth Law Center, which is sponsoring Bryan’s bill, said this would help more children or their families continue receiving Social Security benefits even after leaving foster care. Those receiving Supplemental Security Income could get it for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a potential lifeline,” Lopez-Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child welfare agencies should receive the money on behalf of foster youth only as a matter of last resort, according to federal regulations and state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both list preferred alternatives: a child’s relative, an adult sibling or even a family friend who has demonstrated an interest in the child’s well-being.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Child welfare agencies are last on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California counties have made themselves the recipients even when other relatives were available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fiduciary duties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in Baca’s grandchildren’s case and in the case of another set of two children now suing San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children, two preteen sisters who have been in and out of foster care since they were 4 and 6, are now with an adoptive mother, Amy, who asked to be identified only by her first name to protect the children’s identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls’ biological father died a few months before the second time the girls landed in foster care. Knowing their biological mother had been receiving survivor’s benefits on behalf of the children, Amy contacted the county and the Social Security Administration, to ensure another relative would get the girls’ benefits when they were in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids are going to need those eventually,” she said. “I thought the county would collect them but put them in trust for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As their foster parent at the time, Amy wasn’t eligible to hold onto the benefits for the children. But she said the county never contacted the girls’ adult sibling or great-aunt and instead applied to receive the money itself. The county collected it for about a year, stopping after the adoption went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Most suitable payee’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Social Security spokesperson Patricia Raymond declined to comment on this case or Baca’s. She said that in cases where it must appoint someone to receive benefits on a child’s behalf,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the agency “will investigate and appoint the most suitable payee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The ultimate goal for our family is to change policy. We don’t want any other child to have to have this experience. These children, more than any, need this money.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Amy, foster parent of two children","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Children’s Advocacy Institute, based at the University of San Diego law school, has sued the county for Amy’s adopted children’s benefits in San Diego County Superior Court. The suit accuses the county of violating its fiduciary duty toward the children, arguing that using the funds as reimbursement was not in the girls’ best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County has not responded to the lawsuit in court and did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy and her husband now receive the benefits for the girls, ages 11 and 13. She said they use it for the children’s medical needs that the state doesn’t cover and they save the rest for college or other expenses for when the girls turn 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy said she wants the county to pay back what it took — totaling just under $25,000 — so she can add it to the girls’ fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate goal for our family is to change policy,” Amy said. “We don’t want any other child to have to have this experience. These children, more than any, need this money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11945997/california-child-welfare-agencies-legally-pocket-foster-kids-social-security-money-a-new-bill-could-change-that","authors":["byline_news_11945997"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_31245","news_32613","news_23556","news_4035","news_98"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11946008","label":"source_news_11945997"},"news_11943932":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11943932","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11943932","score":null,"sort":[1679094378000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-bill-would-enhance-protections-for-lgbtq-youth-in-foster-families","title":"California Bill Would Enhance Protections for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Families","publishDate":1679094378,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30745432/\">a third of California youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ\u003c/a>. So, to ensure their home environments are affirming, one state senator wants to enhance the screening process for prospective foster caregivers through a new state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407\">SB 407\u003c/a>, announced Friday by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would create a standard for documenting needs for LGBTQ youth and measuring whether those needs are met in at-home assessments for foster families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do everything in our power to make sure foster youth are in supportive, affirming homes,” Wiener told KQED. “We know there is a strong possibility foster parents will have an LGBTQ kid in their home, so we want to make sure everyone is screened for whether they are willing and able to provide that safe and affirming home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943947\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-800x875.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in his 40s with glasses and a beard, wearing a black suit with a light colored diagonally striped tie talks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-800x875.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-1020x1115.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a protest in front of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the foster care system. And whether their household is supportive and affirming of their queer identity can make a major difference in their outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adolescents who felt support from their parents regarding their gender identity were 93% less likely to attempt suicide compared to parents who were less supportive, according to data from \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/\">The Trevor Project\u003c/a>, an LGBTQ research and advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 407 would outline how anti-LGBTQ conduct at home can pose a health and safety risk and would clarify such as a valid reason for denying a family to care for a foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also build on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB175\">California law passed in 2019\u003c/a> that gave foster youth explicit rights to use the name and gender pronouns they identify with as opposed to those assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see states that are banning trans kids from using the restroom or play sports, or banning their health care. Laws that are banning kids from learning about LGBTQ history or culture,” Wiener said. “It’s really important for California to go in the other direction for our most at-risk LGBT youth, which are foster kids, and make sure they are in a safe and affirming household.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13926077,mindshift_61031\"]Compared to other U.S. states, California has some of the strongest anti-discrimination language in its screening process for foster parents. But those who work in the space say there still is a big gap for parents understanding LGBTQ youth needs, and whether or not those needs will be strongly considered in a screening process can vary county by county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether a home is safe and affirming for queer and trans youth is among the top considerations for evaluators at \u003ca href=\"https://familybuilders.org/\">Family Builders\u003c/a>, a Bay Area organization that connects foster families, and works to rehabilitate and reunite families that have been separated as a result of LGBTQ discrimination in the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our social workers go out to do a family evaluation, we have an extensive conversation about this. What would you do if your teenager came out as gay? What if your toddler told you they were a different gender? Some families break down,” said Jill Jacobs, founder and executive director of Family Builders. “We want to strengthen these regulations to make it painfully clear that this is a requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill point to a number of bills and laws across the country that attempt to restrict the rights and identities of LGBTQ youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recently proposed bill in California, AB 1314, would require school staff to notify parents or caregivers if a student identifies as a gender that doesn’t match their birth certificate. LGBTQ rights advocates have slammed the idea, saying it forces outing students to parents, some of whom may not support their identities or decisions, which could put them in harm's way.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)\"]'We need to do everything in our power to make sure foster youth are in supportive, affirming homes.'[/pullquote]AB 1314 “is absolutely disgusting,” Wiener told KQED. “Anyone who is LGBTQ will decide for themselves when to tell their parents, friends or colleagues. That is a personal decision. The idea that teachers and schools would be forced to take that decision away from trans kids is incredibly disrespectful, and it could lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for LGBTQ youth to enter the foster care system after coming out to their families and facing violence or discrimination at home. So Jacobs says that all caregivers should be prepared to offer a safe and welcoming home to queer and transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Family Builders and similar organizations around the state work directly with families who want to be more supportive of their foster child by providing instruction and development for foster parents. California’s foster youth bill of rights includes having the right to caregivers and welfare personnel who have received instruction on cultural competency for working with LGBTQ youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t always know who those youth will be when we first replace them with a family, so we have to make sure all families will be supportive or affirming,” she said, referring to how youth may come out after they are already placed with a family. “If you can’t, then you don’t meet the criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new law introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener would establish a screening process to ensure home environments of prospective foster caregivers are affirming and supportive for foster kids who identify as LGBTQ.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1679094378,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":923},"headData":{"title":"California Bill Would Enhance Protections for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Families | KQED","description":"The new law introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener would establish a screening process to ensure home environments of prospective foster caregivers are affirming and supportive for foster kids who identify as LGBTQ.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11943932/california-bill-would-enhance-protections-for-lgbtq-youth-in-foster-families","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30745432/\">a third of California youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ\u003c/a>. So, to ensure their home environments are affirming, one state senator wants to enhance the screening process for prospective foster caregivers through a new state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407\">SB 407\u003c/a>, announced Friday by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would create a standard for documenting needs for LGBTQ youth and measuring whether those needs are met in at-home assessments for foster families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do everything in our power to make sure foster youth are in supportive, affirming homes,” Wiener told KQED. “We know there is a strong possibility foster parents will have an LGBTQ kid in their home, so we want to make sure everyone is screened for whether they are willing and able to provide that safe and affirming home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943947\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-800x875.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in his 40s with glasses and a beard, wearing a black suit with a light colored diagonally striped tie talks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-800x875.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-1020x1115.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS53926_032_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-e1679090151516.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a protest in front of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the foster care system. And whether their household is supportive and affirming of their queer identity can make a major difference in their outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adolescents who felt support from their parents regarding their gender identity were 93% less likely to attempt suicide compared to parents who were less supportive, according to data from \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/\">The Trevor Project\u003c/a>, an LGBTQ research and advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 407 would outline how anti-LGBTQ conduct at home can pose a health and safety risk and would clarify such as a valid reason for denying a family to care for a foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also build on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB175\">California law passed in 2019\u003c/a> that gave foster youth explicit rights to use the name and gender pronouns they identify with as opposed to those assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see states that are banning trans kids from using the restroom or play sports, or banning their health care. Laws that are banning kids from learning about LGBTQ history or culture,” Wiener said. “It’s really important for California to go in the other direction for our most at-risk LGBT youth, which are foster kids, and make sure they are in a safe and affirming household.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"arts_13926077,mindshift_61031"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Compared to other U.S. states, California has some of the strongest anti-discrimination language in its screening process for foster parents. But those who work in the space say there still is a big gap for parents understanding LGBTQ youth needs, and whether or not those needs will be strongly considered in a screening process can vary county by county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether a home is safe and affirming for queer and trans youth is among the top considerations for evaluators at \u003ca href=\"https://familybuilders.org/\">Family Builders\u003c/a>, a Bay Area organization that connects foster families, and works to rehabilitate and reunite families that have been separated as a result of LGBTQ discrimination in the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our social workers go out to do a family evaluation, we have an extensive conversation about this. What would you do if your teenager came out as gay? What if your toddler told you they were a different gender? Some families break down,” said Jill Jacobs, founder and executive director of Family Builders. “We want to strengthen these regulations to make it painfully clear that this is a requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill point to a number of bills and laws across the country that attempt to restrict the rights and identities of LGBTQ youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recently proposed bill in California, AB 1314, would require school staff to notify parents or caregivers if a student identifies as a gender that doesn’t match their birth certificate. LGBTQ rights advocates have slammed the idea, saying it forces outing students to parents, some of whom may not support their identities or decisions, which could put them in harm's way.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We need to do everything in our power to make sure foster youth are in supportive, affirming homes.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>AB 1314 “is absolutely disgusting,” Wiener told KQED. “Anyone who is LGBTQ will decide for themselves when to tell their parents, friends or colleagues. That is a personal decision. The idea that teachers and schools would be forced to take that decision away from trans kids is incredibly disrespectful, and it could lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for LGBTQ youth to enter the foster care system after coming out to their families and facing violence or discrimination at home. So Jacobs says that all caregivers should be prepared to offer a safe and welcoming home to queer and transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Family Builders and similar organizations around the state work directly with families who want to be more supportive of their foster child by providing instruction and development for foster parents. California’s foster youth bill of rights includes having the right to caregivers and welfare personnel who have received instruction on cultural competency for working with LGBTQ youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t always know who those youth will be when we first replace them with a family, so we have to make sure all families will be supportive or affirming,” she said, referring to how youth may come out after they are already placed with a family. “If you can’t, then you don’t meet the criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11943932/california-bill-would-enhance-protections-for-lgbtq-youth-in-foster-families","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_4035","news_17629","news_32549","news_23282"],"featImg":"news_11943966","label":"news"},"news_11793182":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793182","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793182","score":null,"sort":[1577570019000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feeling-like-we-belong-u-s-adoptees-return-to-south-korea-to-trace-their-roots","title":"'Feeling Like We Belong': U.S. Adoptees Return to South Korea to Trace Their Roots","publishDate":1577570019,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In September, Seattle resident Barbara Kim celebrated Chuseok — the Korean midautumn festival — with her family members in Seoul. Chuseok is a time to give thanks for plentiful harvests, and for Kim, who was adopted by an American family in the 1960s, this was a particularly special occasion: She was able to spend the holiday with several of her birth relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the celebration they, and a group of South Korean orphans now in their teens and 20s, dug into platters of bulgogi, kimbap, japche and other traditional Korean dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim was among the first wave of a 200,000-strong exodus of adoptees, as South Korea became the world's first source of international adoptions. She was born in 1955, two years after the Korean War cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, adoptees like Kim have been returning to South Korea to find out more about where they come from, build ties with their birth families and connect with others with similar experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being separated from her three siblings for about half a century, Kim managed to track all of them down and reunite with them. She says they have overcome an initial sense of awkwardness in knowing one another and feel proud to be part of the same family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot in common, even though we grew up so far apart,\" she said. \"I feel like there's this sense of feeling like we belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Abandoned, then adopted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now 64, Kim was the eldest child born to impoverished parents at a time when South Korea was recovering from the conflict that killed millions and left about 100,000 children orphaned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After giving birth, Kim's mother abandoned her in the hospital. Korean society traditionally \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5272884/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prefers\u003c/a> boys over girls, and Kim was born with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hip-dysplasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20350209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hip dysplasia.\u003c/a> Kim's grandmother raised her until she was about 8. Her parents wanted nothing to do with her, and eventually, she was sent to an orphanage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='identity' label='Related Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The orphanage was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.holtinternational.org/historybg.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Holt\u003c/a>, the American evangelical Christian who, with his wife Bertha, founded an international adoption agency that matched thousands of Korean orphans with parents in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. A family of dairy farmers in Nebraska adopted Kim, but when they fell on hard times, she says, they vented their anger by abusing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one time thinking: 'Dear God, wasn't it bad enough I had a first mother that was so horrible? Did you have to bring me to a second mother that was like this?' \" Kim recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim later went into the U.S. foster care system. Studying became her refuge. She earned a bachelor's degree, then a master's degree and, after that, worked for the very adoption agency that sent her to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"For the first time, we're developing this relationship\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the difficulties she faced growing up, Kim says she feels grateful for the opportunities that adoption by a U.S. family brought her — particularly when she considers the stigma and other challenges disabled people often contend with in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are still wrestling with their experience of adoption. Denver-based filmmaker Glenn Morey, who was adopted by an American family after he was abandoned as an infant in Seoul, interviewed 100 Korean orphans raised in the U.S. for \u003cem>Side by Side, \u003c/em>a \u003ca href=\"http://sidebysideproject.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">film project with his wife Julie Morey\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the diversity of adoptees' experiences, certain threads connect their stories, he says. Chief among these is \"a sense of loss, sadness and perhaps even trauma related to thinking about it, or remembering in some cases their time in Korea and how their lives got started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, born in 1979, told Morey: \"I feel like I was sold. I feel like I don't know who I am. I don't even know if my name is real or my birthdate is real.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another said, \"I never felt I was actually Asian until later on in life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kim first became acquainted with her siblings in South Korea in the 1970s, she didn't speak Korean and they didn't speak English. They found one another after one of her sisters happened to read a Korean magazine piece in which Kim had written about her life story. Through the magazine publisher, who contacted Kim's father, Kim, her sister and a brother were able to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, there were decades of little or no contact, and they only started to build their relationship in earnest over the past year, when Kim decided to spend more time in Seoul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I decided that I wanted to stay here to learn the language so I can get to know my family,\" Kim explains, \"and for the first time, we're developing this relationship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her sister and brother found another sister who had been placed in an orphanage. Nobody had adopted her, and she had gone to work in a factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kim and her siblings visited her in 1978, \"They all cried to see me because maybe they thought I was not doing so well,\" the sister recalled at the Chuseok gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked that NPR not use her name because of the stigma of being an orphan in South Korea. \"But I just didn't feel anything, because I had lived my whole life thinking that I was alone. I didn't have anybody. So I just felt blank, empty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"Children who were not fully Korean would never be accepted\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Kim, many of South Korea's early adoptees were biracial children whose fathers were American GIs fighting in the Korean War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a country that valued homogeneity, \"adoption initially was thought of as like the 'solution' to mixed-race children,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eleanakim/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleana Kim\u003c/a>, an anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its early years, the South Korean government crafted a narrative of a racially homogeneous nation, she says, \"the idea being that children who were not fully Korean would never be accepted in South Korean society. And the South Korean government realized that there was an interest among Americans to adopt these children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right']'I just didn't feel anything, because I had lived my whole life thinking that I was alone. I didn't have anybody. So I just felt blank, empty.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Son Jeong-seon, then vice minister of welfare and society, \u003ca href=\"http://law.nanet.go.kr/lawservice/knowledgemanagement/knowledgemanagementView.do?searchCon=total&searchKey=&searchValue01=&searchValue02=&searchValue03=&code01=2&code02=MA&number01_str=6&number01_end=6&number02_str=48&number02_end=48&searchFromDate=&searchToDate=&pageUnit=10&pos=7&pageNum=1&cn=PROC2014010828&sort=SessDate_SORT&dir=reversealphabetical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told lawmakers \u003c/a>debating South Korea's adoption law: \"One can't help but feel ashamed by the fact that [an ethnic Korean] would get together with a foreign person and give birth to a baby that doesn't belong to our homogeneous people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of South Korea's adoption system say the government also sought to \"export\" other stigmatized groups, including disabled children or those born to unmarried women, via adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also economic factors in play, says Eleana Kim, noting that South Korea spends less on social welfare than almost any other developed economy. \"Why do people believe that it's better to remove a child from its country of origin rather than to provide money for the parents who can't afford to raise it?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Korean adoptees were not truly orphans, she says. They were abandoned because their parents couldn't afford to raise them, and international adoptions allowed South Korea to shift some of its welfare burden overseas. Adoption agencies charged adoptive parents hefty \u003ca href=\"https://www.holtinternational.org/adoption/fees.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fees\u003c/a>, which at times exceeded Korea's gross domestic product per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"A law that produces orphans\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"We can ask if South Korea is fulfilling the state's duty to protect children, and the answer is pretty doubtful,\" says Kyung-eun Lee, the director of Amnesty International Korea and a former South Korean official who worked on adoption policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee says that according to international law, children must not be separated from their parents unless a court rules it's in the kids' interest. But South Korea, she said, leaves it to parents and adoption agencies to make the decisions, which South Korean courts simply rubber-stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that South Korea's government has allowed parents and adoption agencies to erase children's identities in order to make them more adoptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were made orphans,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, South Korea's adoption law was revised, requiring all international adoptees to have family registration showing whom the birth parents are. This appears to have reduced abuses of the system, says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung Changhyun, an official with South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare, told NPR via email that since the 2013 reforms, Korean courts have \"held adoption confirmation hearings with sufficient review and investigation required to approve adoptions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung did not respond to NPR's request for comment on allegations of birth record falsification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 2013 reforms were enacted, South Korea's number of international adoptions has declined. There were 755 in 2012 and 303 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung said the government will initiate additional reforms that \"will further strengthen public responsibility over the entire adoption procedure and establish adoption system that prioritizes children's interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reforms have stopped the falsification of documents, Lee believes the government still fails to do an adequate job of protecting children's rights throughout the adoption process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [adoption] law, even after many amendments, to this day is basically still a law that produces orphans,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Feeling+Like+We+Belong%27%3A+U.S.+Adoptees+Return+To+South+Korea+To+Trace+Their+Roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"South Korea was once the largest source of children for international adoptions. Now some adoptees are building ties with birth family members. 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Chuseok is a time to give thanks for plentiful harvests, and for Kim, who was adopted by an American family in the 1960s, this was a particularly special occasion: She was able to spend the holiday with several of her birth relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the celebration they, and a group of South Korean orphans now in their teens and 20s, dug into platters of bulgogi, kimbap, japche and other traditional Korean dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim was among the first wave of a 200,000-strong exodus of adoptees, as South Korea became the world's first source of international adoptions. She was born in 1955, two years after the Korean War cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, adoptees like Kim have been returning to South Korea to find out more about where they come from, build ties with their birth families and connect with others with similar experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being separated from her three siblings for about half a century, Kim managed to track all of them down and reunite with them. She says they have overcome an initial sense of awkwardness in knowing one another and feel proud to be part of the same family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot in common, even though we grew up so far apart,\" she said. \"I feel like there's this sense of feeling like we belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Abandoned, then adopted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now 64, Kim was the eldest child born to impoverished parents at a time when South Korea was recovering from the conflict that killed millions and left about 100,000 children orphaned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After giving birth, Kim's mother abandoned her in the hospital. Korean society traditionally \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5272884/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prefers\u003c/a> boys over girls, and Kim was born with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hip-dysplasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20350209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hip dysplasia.\u003c/a> Kim's grandmother raised her until she was about 8. Her parents wanted nothing to do with her, and eventually, she was sent to an orphanage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"identity","label":"Related Coverage. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The orphanage was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.holtinternational.org/historybg.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Holt\u003c/a>, the American evangelical Christian who, with his wife Bertha, founded an international adoption agency that matched thousands of Korean orphans with parents in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. A family of dairy farmers in Nebraska adopted Kim, but when they fell on hard times, she says, they vented their anger by abusing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one time thinking: 'Dear God, wasn't it bad enough I had a first mother that was so horrible? Did you have to bring me to a second mother that was like this?' \" Kim recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim later went into the U.S. foster care system. Studying became her refuge. She earned a bachelor's degree, then a master's degree and, after that, worked for the very adoption agency that sent her to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"For the first time, we're developing this relationship\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the difficulties she faced growing up, Kim says she feels grateful for the opportunities that adoption by a U.S. family brought her — particularly when she considers the stigma and other challenges disabled people often contend with in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are still wrestling with their experience of adoption. Denver-based filmmaker Glenn Morey, who was adopted by an American family after he was abandoned as an infant in Seoul, interviewed 100 Korean orphans raised in the U.S. for \u003cem>Side by Side, \u003c/em>a \u003ca href=\"http://sidebysideproject.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">film project with his wife Julie Morey\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the diversity of adoptees' experiences, certain threads connect their stories, he says. Chief among these is \"a sense of loss, sadness and perhaps even trauma related to thinking about it, or remembering in some cases their time in Korea and how their lives got started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, born in 1979, told Morey: \"I feel like I was sold. I feel like I don't know who I am. I don't even know if my name is real or my birthdate is real.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another said, \"I never felt I was actually Asian until later on in life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kim first became acquainted with her siblings in South Korea in the 1970s, she didn't speak Korean and they didn't speak English. They found one another after one of her sisters happened to read a Korean magazine piece in which Kim had written about her life story. Through the magazine publisher, who contacted Kim's father, Kim, her sister and a brother were able to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, there were decades of little or no contact, and they only started to build their relationship in earnest over the past year, when Kim decided to spend more time in Seoul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I decided that I wanted to stay here to learn the language so I can get to know my family,\" Kim explains, \"and for the first time, we're developing this relationship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her sister and brother found another sister who had been placed in an orphanage. Nobody had adopted her, and she had gone to work in a factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kim and her siblings visited her in 1978, \"They all cried to see me because maybe they thought I was not doing so well,\" the sister recalled at the Chuseok gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked that NPR not use her name because of the stigma of being an orphan in South Korea. \"But I just didn't feel anything, because I had lived my whole life thinking that I was alone. I didn't have anybody. So I just felt blank, empty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"Children who were not fully Korean would never be accepted\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Kim, many of South Korea's early adoptees were biracial children whose fathers were American GIs fighting in the Korean War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a country that valued homogeneity, \"adoption initially was thought of as like the 'solution' to mixed-race children,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eleanakim/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleana Kim\u003c/a>, an anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its early years, the South Korean government crafted a narrative of a racially homogeneous nation, she says, \"the idea being that children who were not fully Korean would never be accepted in South Korean society. And the South Korean government realized that there was an interest among Americans to adopt these children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I just didn't feel anything, because I had lived my whole life thinking that I was alone. I didn't have anybody. So I just felt blank, empty.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Son Jeong-seon, then vice minister of welfare and society, \u003ca href=\"http://law.nanet.go.kr/lawservice/knowledgemanagement/knowledgemanagementView.do?searchCon=total&searchKey=&searchValue01=&searchValue02=&searchValue03=&code01=2&code02=MA&number01_str=6&number01_end=6&number02_str=48&number02_end=48&searchFromDate=&searchToDate=&pageUnit=10&pos=7&pageNum=1&cn=PROC2014010828&sort=SessDate_SORT&dir=reversealphabetical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told lawmakers \u003c/a>debating South Korea's adoption law: \"One can't help but feel ashamed by the fact that [an ethnic Korean] would get together with a foreign person and give birth to a baby that doesn't belong to our homogeneous people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of South Korea's adoption system say the government also sought to \"export\" other stigmatized groups, including disabled children or those born to unmarried women, via adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also economic factors in play, says Eleana Kim, noting that South Korea spends less on social welfare than almost any other developed economy. \"Why do people believe that it's better to remove a child from its country of origin rather than to provide money for the parents who can't afford to raise it?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Korean adoptees were not truly orphans, she says. They were abandoned because their parents couldn't afford to raise them, and international adoptions allowed South Korea to shift some of its welfare burden overseas. Adoption agencies charged adoptive parents hefty \u003ca href=\"https://www.holtinternational.org/adoption/fees.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fees\u003c/a>, which at times exceeded Korea's gross domestic product per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"A law that produces orphans\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"We can ask if South Korea is fulfilling the state's duty to protect children, and the answer is pretty doubtful,\" says Kyung-eun Lee, the director of Amnesty International Korea and a former South Korean official who worked on adoption policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee says that according to international law, children must not be separated from their parents unless a court rules it's in the kids' interest. But South Korea, she said, leaves it to parents and adoption agencies to make the decisions, which South Korean courts simply rubber-stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that South Korea's government has allowed parents and adoption agencies to erase children's identities in order to make them more adoptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were made orphans,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, South Korea's adoption law was revised, requiring all international adoptees to have family registration showing whom the birth parents are. This appears to have reduced abuses of the system, says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung Changhyun, an official with South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare, told NPR via email that since the 2013 reforms, Korean courts have \"held adoption confirmation hearings with sufficient review and investigation required to approve adoptions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung did not respond to NPR's request for comment on allegations of birth record falsification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 2013 reforms were enacted, South Korea's number of international adoptions has declined. There were 755 in 2012 and 303 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung said the government will initiate additional reforms that \"will further strengthen public responsibility over the entire adoption procedure and establish adoption system that prioritizes children's interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reforms have stopped the falsification of documents, Lee believes the government still fails to do an adequate job of protecting children's rights throughout the adoption process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [adoption] law, even after many amendments, to this day is basically still a law that produces orphans,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Feeling+Like+We+Belong%27%3A+U.S.+Adoptees+Return+To+South+Korea+To+Trace+Their+Roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793182/feeling-like-we-belong-u-s-adoptees-return-to-south-korea-to-trace-their-roots","authors":["byline_news_11793182"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21690","news_18143","news_4035","news_23757","news_6148"],"featImg":"news_11793183","label":"source_news_11793182"},"news_11471659":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11471659","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11471659","score":null,"sort":[1495586146000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"2-the-trials-of-marvin-mutch-lost-boy","title":"2. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Lost Boy","publishDate":1495586146,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Q’ed Up | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":20407,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Police knew Marvin Mutch's name by the time he turned 3 years old, around the time he learned to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do we know? Because \"little Marvin the Terrible\" the \"itchy-footed 3-year-old\" with \"a rap sheet as long as his arm\" made the January 6, 1960 edition of the Oakland Tribune for his habit of running away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a darker picture lurks behind the newspaper's glib copy and cartoon. Young Marvin had a reason to run. His mother was in and out of the hospital for mental and physical illnesses, and from an early age, Marvin and his younger sister, Valerie, were left to fend for themselves. Or worse, they were housed in a series of abusive or neglectful foster and group homes. That's where they both developed criminal records -- mostly for running away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 1974, the family moved to Union City, where Valerie and Marvin played surrogate parents to their two younger half-sisters. Their mother was hospitalized, and the children were fending for themselves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A phone call would change everything and put both Marvin and Valerie on a collision course with Cassie Riley's murder and the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In and out of foster care for most of their childhoods, Marvin Mutch and his sister Valerie grew to depend on themselves and each other. But a phone call put them both on a collision course with Cassie Riley's murder and the California criminal justice system.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1495586146,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":201},"headData":{"title":"2. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Lost Boy | KQED","description":"In and out of foster care for most of their childhoods, Marvin Mutch and his sister Valerie grew to depend on themselves and each other. But a phone call put them both on a collision course with Cassie Riley's murder and the California criminal justice system.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11471659 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11471659","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/23/2-the-trials-of-marvin-mutch-lost-boy/","disqusTitle":"2. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Lost Boy","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/qed-up/2017/05/MarvinMutchChapter2FINAL.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11471659/2-the-trials-of-marvin-mutch-lost-boy","audioDuration":1075000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Police knew Marvin Mutch's name by the time he turned 3 years old, around the time he learned to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do we know? Because \"little Marvin the Terrible\" the \"itchy-footed 3-year-old\" with \"a rap sheet as long as his arm\" made the January 6, 1960 edition of the Oakland Tribune for his habit of running away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a darker picture lurks behind the newspaper's glib copy and cartoon. Young Marvin had a reason to run. His mother was in and out of the hospital for mental and physical illnesses, and from an early age, Marvin and his younger sister, Valerie, were left to fend for themselves. Or worse, they were housed in a series of abusive or neglectful foster and group homes. That's where they both developed criminal records -- mostly for running away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 1974, the family moved to Union City, where Valerie and Marvin played surrogate parents to their two younger half-sisters. Their mother was hospitalized, and the children were fending for themselves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A phone call would change everything and put both Marvin and Valerie on a collision course with Cassie Riley's murder and the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11471659/2-the-trials-of-marvin-mutch-lost-boy","authors":["3206","188"],"programs":["news_20407"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20150","news_4035","news_17629","news_20564","news_20959"],"featImg":"news_11472186","label":"news_20407"},"news_11265281":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11265281","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11265281","score":null,"sort":[1484179895000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-20-years-california-man-leaves-foster-care-on-his-own-terms","title":"After 20 Years, California Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms","publishDate":1484179895,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>When Noel Anaya was just 1 year old, he and his five brothers and sisters were placed in the California foster care system. He has spent nearly all of his life in that system and has just turned 21. In California, that's the age when people in foster care \"age out\" of the system and lose the benefits the system provides. That process becomes official at a final court hearing. Anaya, along with Youth Radio, got rare permission to record the proceeding, where \u003c/em>\u003cem>he read a letter he wrote about his experience in the foster care system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/508608745/509179603\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking into court for my very last time as a foster youth, I feel like I'm getting a divorce from a system that I've been in a relationship with almost my entire life. It's bittersweet because I'm losing guaranteed stipends for food and housing, as well as access to my social workers and my lawyer. But on the other hand, I'm relieved to finally get away from a system that ultimately failed me on its biggest promise: that one day it would find me a family who would love me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little things, like when my judge Shawna Schwarz mispronounces my name, serve as a constant reminder that, \"Hey, I'm just a number.\" I often come away feeling powerless and anonymous in the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I'm reviewing my notes and it looks like the first time I got involved in your case was back in 2003,\" Schwarz says. \"You've been in the system a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't have any pictures of my five siblings and me together as babies. Not a single one. Which makes \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday\">Throwback Thursdays (#TBT)\u003c/a> a little challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My biological parents weren't ready to be parents. My father was abusive. Eventually Child Protective Services got involved, and my siblings and I went into the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were separated and shuffled between foster homes, group homes, shelters, and for at least one of my siblings, incarceration. That's why it was really important to me to make a statement in court, going on the record about how the foster care system failed my siblings and me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11265282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11265282 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"In one of the few photos Anaya has from his time in foster care, he's pictured at age 4 in the backyard of one of his many foster homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In one of the few photos Noel Anaya has from his time in foster care, he's pictured at age 4 in the backyard of one of his many foster homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Noel Anaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have been pretty much one of our more successful young adults. Is there any advice you'd give us?\" Schwarz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I clear my throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>To whom it may concern. This is the year that I divorce you, your gray hands can no longer hurt me, your gray hands can never overpower me, your gray hands can never tell me that you love me because it's too late. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I use \"gray hands\" to describe the foster care system, because it never felt warm or human. It's institutional. Opposite the sort of unconditional love I imagine that parents try to show their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Your gray hands just taught me how to survive in a world. We never learned how to love ourselves unconditionally. I've been with multiple foster families, I've been with multiple shelters. How does a person like me not end up with a family. ...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, being a foster kid is supposed to be temporary. When it's stable and appropriate, the preference is to reunite kids with their parents or family members. Adoption is the next best option. I used to dream of it. Having a mom and dad, siblings to play with ... a dog. But when I hit 12, I realized that I was getting old. That adoption probably would never happen for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the system, I constantly had new social workers, lawyers and case managers, which left me vulnerable. It wasn't until I got older that I realized one of the main causes for the turnover was because of low wages and overflowing caseloads. Even my lawyer is currently juggling 130 other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>At 21 you happily kick us off to the curb and say good luck I wish you well, I wish you the best but don't come back because we can't take you in. I've seen too many of my people give up on the educational system. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11265284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11265284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system. \u003ccite>(Brett Myers/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had hoped to finish college by the time I aged out of foster care, but I'm still in my junior year. I'm committed to getting my bachelor's, despite the odds being terrible. According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, only somewhere \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.fc2success.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/National-Fact-Sheet-on-the-Educational-Outcomes-of-Children-in-Foster-Care-Jan-2014.pdf\">between 2 and 9 percent \u003c/a>of former foster kids complete their college degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>I hope that you hear my words. And I hope that you listen to my signal of distress. I thank you for giving me closure. Thank you. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the judge reads her final orders closing out my case, I promise myself that I'll leave all the rage I feel about the foster care system inside the courtroom. That I won't carry that hate and frustration with me for the rest of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one more thing I need before I leave the courtroom — for the judge to bring the gavel down on this chapter of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is that it?\" I ask. \"No hammer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want me to do the gavel?\" the judge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One time, please.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All right, I'll do the gavel,\" Schwarz says. \"You know we never do that in real life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt goosebumps when the gavel slapped down on my judge's desk. Happy because I'm no longer cared for by a system that was never that good at actually caring for me. And I'm anxious, too, about what life might be like next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.org/\">Youth Radio\u003c/a>. You can learn about how children \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.github.io/fostercare/\">journey through the foster care system\u003c/a> at their website.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Noel Anaya entered foster care when he was a year old. He recently aged out of the system at 21, and used his court hearing finalizing the process to send a 'signal of distress.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1484185596,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1044},"headData":{"title":"After 20 Years, California Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms | KQED","description":"Noel Anaya entered foster care when he was a year old. 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He has spent nearly all of his life in that system and has just turned 21. In California, that's the age when people in foster care \"age out\" of the system and lose the benefits the system provides. That process becomes official at a final court hearing. Anaya, along with Youth Radio, got rare permission to record the proceeding, where \u003c/em>\u003cem>he read a letter he wrote about his experience in the foster care system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/508608745/509179603\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking into court for my very last time as a foster youth, I feel like I'm getting a divorce from a system that I've been in a relationship with almost my entire life. It's bittersweet because I'm losing guaranteed stipends for food and housing, as well as access to my social workers and my lawyer. But on the other hand, I'm relieved to finally get away from a system that ultimately failed me on its biggest promise: that one day it would find me a family who would love me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little things, like when my judge Shawna Schwarz mispronounces my name, serve as a constant reminder that, \"Hey, I'm just a number.\" I often come away feeling powerless and anonymous in the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I'm reviewing my notes and it looks like the first time I got involved in your case was back in 2003,\" Schwarz says. \"You've been in the system a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't have any pictures of my five siblings and me together as babies. Not a single one. Which makes \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday\">Throwback Thursdays (#TBT)\u003c/a> a little challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My biological parents weren't ready to be parents. My father was abusive. Eventually Child Protective Services got involved, and my siblings and I went into the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were separated and shuffled between foster homes, group homes, shelters, and for at least one of my siblings, incarceration. That's why it was really important to me to make a statement in court, going on the record about how the foster care system failed my siblings and me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11265282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11265282 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"In one of the few photos Anaya has from his time in foster care, he's pictured at age 4 in the backyard of one of his many foster homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20170105-scan0008-8d66978093072792b068ac2775cfede3f3f3957b.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In one of the few photos Noel Anaya has from his time in foster care, he's pictured at age 4 in the backyard of one of his many foster homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Noel Anaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have been pretty much one of our more successful young adults. Is there any advice you'd give us?\" Schwarz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I clear my throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>To whom it may concern. This is the year that I divorce you, your gray hands can no longer hurt me, your gray hands can never overpower me, your gray hands can never tell me that you love me because it's too late. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I use \"gray hands\" to describe the foster care system, because it never felt warm or human. It's institutional. Opposite the sort of unconditional love I imagine that parents try to show their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Your gray hands just taught me how to survive in a world. We never learned how to love ourselves unconditionally. I've been with multiple foster families, I've been with multiple shelters. How does a person like me not end up with a family. ...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, being a foster kid is supposed to be temporary. When it's stable and appropriate, the preference is to reunite kids with their parents or family members. Adoption is the next best option. I used to dream of it. Having a mom and dad, siblings to play with ... a dog. But when I hit 12, I realized that I was getting old. That adoption probably would never happen for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the system, I constantly had new social workers, lawyers and case managers, which left me vulnerable. It wasn't until I got older that I realized one of the main causes for the turnover was because of low wages and overflowing caseloads. Even my lawyer is currently juggling 130 other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>At 21 you happily kick us off to the curb and say good luck I wish you well, I wish you the best but don't come back because we can't take you in. I've seen too many of my people give up on the educational system. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11265284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11265284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system. \u003ccite>(Brett Myers/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had hoped to finish college by the time I aged out of foster care, but I'm still in my junior year. I'm committed to getting my bachelor's, despite the odds being terrible. According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, only somewhere \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.fc2success.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/National-Fact-Sheet-on-the-Educational-Outcomes-of-Children-in-Foster-Care-Jan-2014.pdf\">between 2 and 9 percent \u003c/a>of former foster kids complete their college degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>I hope that you hear my words. And I hope that you listen to my signal of distress. I thank you for giving me closure. Thank you. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the judge reads her final orders closing out my case, I promise myself that I'll leave all the rage I feel about the foster care system inside the courtroom. That I won't carry that hate and frustration with me for the rest of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one more thing I need before I leave the courtroom — for the judge to bring the gavel down on this chapter of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is that it?\" I ask. \"No hammer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want me to do the gavel?\" the judge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One time, please.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All right, I'll do the gavel,\" Schwarz says. \"You know we never do that in real life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt goosebumps when the gavel slapped down on my judge's desk. Happy because I'm no longer cared for by a system that was never that good at actually caring for me. And I'm anxious, too, about what life might be like next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.org/\">Youth Radio\u003c/a>. You can learn about how children \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.github.io/fostercare/\">journey through the foster care system\u003c/a> at their website.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11265281/after-20-years-california-man-leaves-foster-care-on-his-own-terms","authors":["byline_news_11265281"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_4035","news_17286","news_376"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11265283","label":"source_news_11265281"},"news_11061787":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11061787","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11061787","score":null,"sort":[1472496900000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-legislature-approves-stipend-for-pregnant-foster-girls","title":"Bill Extending Stipend for Pregnant Foster Girls Heads to Gov. Brown","publishDate":1472496900,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, September 27, 11:10 a.m: \u003c/strong>Gov. Brown vetoed AB 1838. In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1838_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">veto message\u003c/a>, Brown said this proposal and four other bills that would have impacted low-income residents should be discussed during the annual budget negotiations that begin on January 10, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the best way to evaluate and prioritize all new spending proposals, including those that increase the cost of existing programs,\" said Brown. \"These bills are an end run of the budget process, and would commit us to spending an additional $240 million every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant foster youth in California would have access to an additional stipend to help them prepare for the birth of their babies under a new bill approved by the California Legislature last week, a move advocates say could increase critical resources and prenatal care for some of the state's most vulnerable young moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already provides an infant supplement to about 800 foster youth who are parents, the amount of which was recently increased from $400 to $900 per month. But young moms in foster care can access those funds only after their baby is born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1838\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1838\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), would extend that infant income supplement to expecting foster girls during their last trimester, a total of $2,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It could be really critical funds for them,\" said Susan Abrams, policy director with Children's Law Center of California. \"That would enable pregnant foster youth to really take steps to prepare for the birth of their child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pregnant Youth in Foster Care Lack Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These young women, who are up to 21 years of age, lack basic support and resources to be a parent, said Abrams, whose organization co-sponsored AB 1838. They often live in foster homes or with relatives who are struggling financially themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls in the foster care system are more likely to get pregnant and become moms than their non-foster care peers. A 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapinhall.org/sites/default/files/Youth%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> of foster youth in California found that 26 percent of girls had been pregnant at least once by age 17, compared with about 10 percent in the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Vqc3JwK9sfCJvMRbC3WQ9iA30PNU42GL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study, which reviewed responses from over 700 foster youth ages 16-17, also found that 20 percent of the teens had not received any prenatal care during their pregnancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because foster youth might be ashamed or fearful they'll get into trouble if they disclose their pregnancy, says Amy Lemley, executive director at the John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes, which helped craft the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemley says Gov. Jerry Brown's approval of AB 1838 would provide an incentive for foster youth to disclose their pregnancies earlier and access prenatal care, with positive impacts for the health of both the baby and mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a young parent has what they need, they are more likely to be more confident on their new role as parent, and they are just more likely to succeed,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stipend would take effect Jan. 1, with an estimated cost of $2.2 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Mom's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miranda Sheffield was 18, in foster care, and going into labor on her way to the hospital when she remembers thinking she didn't have a crib or car seat for her baby girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't have all those things ready to go,\" said Sheffield, who lives in the L.A. area. Her friends scrambled, and she was able to leave the hospital with a car seat for her daughter. But gear was just one of many unknowns at the time for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheffield felt \"very overwhelmed\" during her pregnancy, she said, and worried about how to secure food and housing for her daughter later on. She was scared her baby would also end up growing up in the foster care system, like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having those extra $900, it would have helped to alleviate some of that stress of not knowing where you are going to sleep,\" said Sheffield, who had to exit the foster care system at age 18 with her newborn and was considering living in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before 2012, when California provided youth the option of staying in foster care until age 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheffield counts herself as lucky. Her foster mom continued providing a home for her and her baby, and Sheffield went on to earn a college degree and become a peer advocate for other foster youth. She's now 30 and the \"happy mommy of an awesome 11-year-old.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said AB 1838, if implemented, would help provide some peace of mind, options and basic necessities to expecting moms she knows in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has until Sept. 30 to OK or veto the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"AB 1838, on its way to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, would allow pregnant foster girls to access $900 a month during their last trimester.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475001748,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":834},"headData":{"title":"Bill Extending Stipend for Pregnant Foster Girls Heads to Gov. Brown | KQED","description":"AB 1838, on its way to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, would allow pregnant foster girls to access $900 a month during their last trimester.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11061787 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11061787","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/california-legislature-approves-stipend-for-pregnant-foster-girls/","disqusTitle":"Bill Extending Stipend for Pregnant Foster Girls Heads to Gov. Brown","nprStoryId":"491841124","path":"/news/11061787/california-legislature-approves-stipend-for-pregnant-foster-girls","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, September 27, 11:10 a.m: \u003c/strong>Gov. Brown vetoed AB 1838. In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1838_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">veto message\u003c/a>, Brown said this proposal and four other bills that would have impacted low-income residents should be discussed during the annual budget negotiations that begin on January 10, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the best way to evaluate and prioritize all new spending proposals, including those that increase the cost of existing programs,\" said Brown. \"These bills are an end run of the budget process, and would commit us to spending an additional $240 million every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant foster youth in California would have access to an additional stipend to help them prepare for the birth of their babies under a new bill approved by the California Legislature last week, a move advocates say could increase critical resources and prenatal care for some of the state's most vulnerable young moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already provides an infant supplement to about 800 foster youth who are parents, the amount of which was recently increased from $400 to $900 per month. But young moms in foster care can access those funds only after their baby is born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1838\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1838\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), would extend that infant income supplement to expecting foster girls during their last trimester, a total of $2,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It could be really critical funds for them,\" said Susan Abrams, policy director with Children's Law Center of California. \"That would enable pregnant foster youth to really take steps to prepare for the birth of their child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pregnant Youth in Foster Care Lack Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These young women, who are up to 21 years of age, lack basic support and resources to be a parent, said Abrams, whose organization co-sponsored AB 1838. They often live in foster homes or with relatives who are struggling financially themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls in the foster care system are more likely to get pregnant and become moms than their non-foster care peers. A 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapinhall.org/sites/default/files/Youth%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> of foster youth in California found that 26 percent of girls had been pregnant at least once by age 17, compared with about 10 percent in the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study, which reviewed responses from over 700 foster youth ages 16-17, also found that 20 percent of the teens had not received any prenatal care during their pregnancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because foster youth might be ashamed or fearful they'll get into trouble if they disclose their pregnancy, says Amy Lemley, executive director at the John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes, which helped craft the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemley says Gov. Jerry Brown's approval of AB 1838 would provide an incentive for foster youth to disclose their pregnancies earlier and access prenatal care, with positive impacts for the health of both the baby and mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a young parent has what they need, they are more likely to be more confident on their new role as parent, and they are just more likely to succeed,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stipend would take effect Jan. 1, with an estimated cost of $2.2 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Mom's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miranda Sheffield was 18, in foster care, and going into labor on her way to the hospital when she remembers thinking she didn't have a crib or car seat for her baby girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't have all those things ready to go,\" said Sheffield, who lives in the L.A. area. Her friends scrambled, and she was able to leave the hospital with a car seat for her daughter. But gear was just one of many unknowns at the time for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheffield felt \"very overwhelmed\" during her pregnancy, she said, and worried about how to secure food and housing for her daughter later on. She was scared her baby would also end up growing up in the foster care system, like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having those extra $900, it would have helped to alleviate some of that stress of not knowing where you are going to sleep,\" said Sheffield, who had to exit the foster care system at age 18 with her newborn and was considering living in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before 2012, when California provided youth the option of staying in foster care until age 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheffield counts herself as lucky. Her foster mom continued providing a home for her and her baby, and Sheffield went on to earn a college degree and become a peer advocate for other foster youth. She's now 30 and the \"happy mommy of an awesome 11-year-old.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said AB 1838, if implemented, would help provide some peace of mind, options and basic necessities to expecting moms she knows in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has until Sept. 30 to OK or veto the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11061787/california-legislature-approves-stipend-for-pregnant-foster-girls","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_4035","news_17629","news_19743","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11064829","label":"news_72"},"stateofhealth_213206":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_213206","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"213206","score":null,"sort":[1470250477000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-overhauling-foster-care-rates-to-support-family-caregivers","title":"California Overhauling Foster Care Rates to Support Family Caregivers","publishDate":1470250477,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>After years of complaints, California is drastically changing the way it financially supports foster families. It's a move that aims to prioritize the needs of the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kidsdata.org/topic/20/fostercare/table#fmt=16&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=79\" target=\"_blank\">62,000 foster children \u003c/a>and make it easier for grandparents and other relatives to care for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is the very first time in California's history that we will be treating our relatives and our non-relative foster parents equally.' \u003ccite>Angie Schwartz, Alliance for Children's Rights \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, California's foster care rates will be tied to the health and behavioral needs of each child. In the present system, the income of the home the child was removed from and whether the child was placed with relatives or non-relatives were bigger factors in determining support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system will replace a \"tangled mess of rules\" that ends up penalizing thousands of foster children who are cared for by relatives -- even though such children have better educational outcomes and less trauma when cared for by a person with family ties, says Angie Schwartz, policy director for the Alliance for Children's Rights, which advocated for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very historic change in California,\" says Schwartz, whose nonprofit provides legal services for children in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the very first time in California's history that we will be treating our relatives and our non-relative foster parents equally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Jerry Brown approved the new rate system in June as part of the state budget, and allocated about $40 million to begin implementing the payment changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Major Transformational Effort'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy is part of a larger effort that has been at least five years in the making to improve how children and youth do in the state's foster care system, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/PG4869.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Continuum of Care Reform\u003c/a>. The reform also aims to significantly expand mental health and other support services to all foster families, says Greg Rose, who oversees child welfare \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the major transformational effort that we are putting in place so that young people in foster care can have as traditional a family life as reasonably possible,\" says Rose, adding that a goal of the reform is to reduce the use of more expensive institutionalized group homes, where foster youth tend to have the worst outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately, we'll have healthier, happier youth that experience the foster care system,\" says Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foster care rate changes will impact at least 10,000 families statewide who will be able to access similar resources as other foster families, says Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276496072\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several weeks, a stakeholder group will define new rates, says Rose, which are expected to be at least slightly higher than they are at present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once new rates are established county social workers are expected to begin assessing each child in foster care statewide to determine where the child fits in the new rate structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Mom's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, all foster parents -- whether related to the child or not -- must pass similar licensing and approval standards. But the stipends they receive may vary dramatically depending on whether they are related to the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donita Escamilla experienced the discrepancy first hand when she became a foster parent to her niece, Isabella, two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Escamilla received about $300 monthly to help care for Isabella, she would have received as much as $1,100 more is she were not related to the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not ever look at Isabella as a dollar sign. I was ready to take care of Isabella funding or no funding,\" says Escamilla, who was working as a waitress at a casino and already a single mother of four when she took Isabella in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that no matter what the struggle for me was, that that’s what was best for her, and that she needed to be with us,\" she says. \"I just couldn’t imagine her going with strangers, with people that we didn’t know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of resources was stressful, says Escamilla. Isabella's birth mother had used drugs throughout her pregnancy, and the newborn tested positive for methampethamines which has impacted Isabella's development and lungs. Escamilla spent sleepless nights taking the baby to the emergency room for bouts of asthma and bronchitis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_220439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-220439 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Okada, an occupational therapist, and Isabella look for ants near a playground in the Sacramento area, as part of Isabella's weekly play and speech therapy session. Donita Escamilla, who became a foster parent for Isabella and recently adopted her, says therapy is helping the toddler develop her emotions and social skills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-768x548.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-1440x1027.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-1180x841.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-960x685.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella and Stephanie Okada, an occupational therapist, look for ants near a playground in the Sacramento area, as part of Isabella's weekly play therapy sessions. Donita Escamilla, who became a foster parent for Isabella and recently adopted her, says the toddler struggles with social interactions and therapy helps to address her needs. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Isabella's medical needs were covered through Medi-Cal, the state's insurance for low income people. But Escamilla worried about losing her job, and not being there for her other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always in this state of trying to balance the needs of my family as a whole, versus Isabella’s medical needs, trying to get people to take her to the doctor for me, not being able to miss work because she was ill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escamilla adapted. She left her casino job and opened a child care center so that she could care for Isabella herself, instead of shuttling her to other caregivers. She takes Isabella weekly for play, speech and other therapy sessions to aid her social and emotional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escamilla ended up adopting Isabella, so the new foster rate changes won't affect her, but she considers the development \"a huge victory.\" She says she hopes other relative foster parents in the state won't struggle the way she did.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Next year, California adopts new monthly foster care stipends to make it easier for relatives to care for foster children.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1470350004,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1018},"headData":{"title":"California Overhauling Foster Care Rates to Support Family Caregivers | KQED","description":"Next year, California adopts new monthly foster care stipends to make it easier for relatives to care for foster children.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"213206 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=213206","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/08/03/california-overhauling-foster-care-rates-to-support-family-caregivers/","disqusTitle":"California Overhauling Foster Care Rates to Support Family Caregivers","path":"/stateofhealth/213206/california-overhauling-foster-care-rates-to-support-family-caregivers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years of complaints, California is drastically changing the way it financially supports foster families. It's a move that aims to prioritize the needs of the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kidsdata.org/topic/20/fostercare/table#fmt=16&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=79\" target=\"_blank\">62,000 foster children \u003c/a>and make it easier for grandparents and other relatives to care for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is the very first time in California's history that we will be treating our relatives and our non-relative foster parents equally.' \u003ccite>Angie Schwartz, Alliance for Children's Rights \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, California's foster care rates will be tied to the health and behavioral needs of each child. In the present system, the income of the home the child was removed from and whether the child was placed with relatives or non-relatives were bigger factors in determining support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system will replace a \"tangled mess of rules\" that ends up penalizing thousands of foster children who are cared for by relatives -- even though such children have better educational outcomes and less trauma when cared for by a person with family ties, says Angie Schwartz, policy director for the Alliance for Children's Rights, which advocated for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very historic change in California,\" says Schwartz, whose nonprofit provides legal services for children in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the very first time in California's history that we will be treating our relatives and our non-relative foster parents equally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Jerry Brown approved the new rate system in June as part of the state budget, and allocated about $40 million to begin implementing the payment changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Major Transformational Effort'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy is part of a larger effort that has been at least five years in the making to improve how children and youth do in the state's foster care system, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/PG4869.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Continuum of Care Reform\u003c/a>. The reform also aims to significantly expand mental health and other support services to all foster families, says Greg Rose, who oversees child welfare \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the major transformational effort that we are putting in place so that young people in foster care can have as traditional a family life as reasonably possible,\" says Rose, adding that a goal of the reform is to reduce the use of more expensive institutionalized group homes, where foster youth tend to have the worst outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately, we'll have healthier, happier youth that experience the foster care system,\" says Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foster care rate changes will impact at least 10,000 families statewide who will be able to access similar resources as other foster families, says Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276496072&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276496072'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several weeks, a stakeholder group will define new rates, says Rose, which are expected to be at least slightly higher than they are at present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once new rates are established county social workers are expected to begin assessing each child in foster care statewide to determine where the child fits in the new rate structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Mom's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, all foster parents -- whether related to the child or not -- must pass similar licensing and approval standards. But the stipends they receive may vary dramatically depending on whether they are related to the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donita Escamilla experienced the discrepancy first hand when she became a foster parent to her niece, Isabella, two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Escamilla received about $300 monthly to help care for Isabella, she would have received as much as $1,100 more is she were not related to the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not ever look at Isabella as a dollar sign. I was ready to take care of Isabella funding or no funding,\" says Escamilla, who was working as a waitress at a casino and already a single mother of four when she took Isabella in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that no matter what the struggle for me was, that that’s what was best for her, and that she needed to be with us,\" she says. \"I just couldn’t imagine her going with strangers, with people that we didn’t know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of resources was stressful, says Escamilla. Isabella's birth mother had used drugs throughout her pregnancy, and the newborn tested positive for methampethamines which has impacted Isabella's development and lungs. Escamilla spent sleepless nights taking the baby to the emergency room for bouts of asthma and bronchitis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_220439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-220439 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Okada, an occupational therapist, and Isabella look for ants near a playground in the Sacramento area, as part of Isabella's weekly play and speech therapy session. Donita Escamilla, who became a foster parent for Isabella and recently adopted her, says therapy is helping the toddler develop her emotions and social skills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-768x548.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-1440x1027.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-1180x841.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/08/RS20497_IMG_0182-qut-960x685.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella and Stephanie Okada, an occupational therapist, look for ants near a playground in the Sacramento area, as part of Isabella's weekly play therapy sessions. Donita Escamilla, who became a foster parent for Isabella and recently adopted her, says the toddler struggles with social interactions and therapy helps to address her needs. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Isabella's medical needs were covered through Medi-Cal, the state's insurance for low income people. But Escamilla worried about losing her job, and not being there for her other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always in this state of trying to balance the needs of my family as a whole, versus Isabella’s medical needs, trying to get people to take her to the doctor for me, not being able to miss work because she was ill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escamilla adapted. She left her casino job and opened a child care center so that she could care for Isabella herself, instead of shuttling her to other caregivers. She takes Isabella weekly for play, speech and other therapy sessions to aid her social and emotional development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escamilla ended up adopting Isabella, so the new foster rate changes won't affect her, but she considers the development \"a huge victory.\" She says she hopes other relative foster parents in the state won't struggle the way she did.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/213206/california-overhauling-foster-care-rates-to-support-family-caregivers","authors":["8659"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_2808","stateofhealth_2544","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_220441","label":"stateofhealth"},"news_11036097":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11036097","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11036097","score":null,"sort":[1470091809000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"laptop-give-away-program-helps-foster-kids-succeed","title":"Helping Foster Kids Succeed, One Laptop at a Time","publishDate":1470091809,"format":"image","headTitle":"Helping Foster Kids Succeed, One Laptop at a Time | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After years of abuse at home, 19-year-old Dennisse Aldana of Los Angeles was placed into foster care when she was 17. Like many foster kids, she lacked the tools needed for today’s digital world. Even the most basic tool in a young student’s life — a laptop computer — was out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All throughout high school I didn’t have a laptop, and I felt like I was limited to what I could really accomplish in class,” recalls Aldana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with her fellow students, she typed her essays on her smartphone. Then she emailed them to herself to print out at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldana couldn’t help noticing that her friends all had laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They always just brought their essays right on time. They didn’t have to ask for any extensions. Their essays would be great,” Aldana says. “And then I would look at mine. I was never proud of my essays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a partnership of small California nonprofits aims to level the technology playing field for foster kids like Aldana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those organizations is volunteer-driven, Los Angeles-based \u003ca href=\"http://fostercarecounts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foster Care Counts\u003c/a>. Started in 2012 to serve foster youth and the agencies that support them, it focuses on helping kids get the technical and emotional skills they need to become financially independent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to board member Winnie Wechsler, laptops are a must-have for these kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is impossible for a teenager today to succeed in college or the workplace without a laptop computer,” says Wechsler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Care Counts connects youngsters with the group iFoster, which can secure laptops for these youth at $225 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We surveyed more than 30,000 caregivers, foster parents, youth and social workers to find out what foster kids need most,” says co-founder Serita Cox. “And when it came to concrete goods, access to a computer was the one thing missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11038631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11038631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Dennisse Aldana, a student at Glendale Community College, received a refurbished laptop from iFoster. \" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-1180x748.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-960x609.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennisse Aldana, a student at Glendale Community College, received a refurbished laptop from iFoster. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>iFoster and Foster Care Counts commissioned a study by Dr. Jeremy Goldbach at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work. Between 2013 and 2015, he followed the impact laptops had on 730 foster kids ages 16-21 in four California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In academic performance we saw that young people after receiving the laptops reported higher grades, fewer missed days of school and work, and increased pursuit of college and employment,” says Goldbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also noted other measures of success. “We saw a change around social connectivity and found improved relationships with biological families and with foster families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, iFoster says more than 8,000 refurbished laptops have been handed out to foster kids across the country — about half of them to kids here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennisse Aldana was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just changed my life because I’m actually doing better in college now. I have a laptop and that’s helping me get through college,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She dreams of one day starting a robotics program for foster kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just hope I do something good when I grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she has some college applications to type out. This time on her own laptop.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A partnership of small California nonprofits aims to level the technology playing field for the state's foster kids.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710798501,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":571},"headData":{"title":"Helping Foster Kids Succeed, One Laptop at a Time | KQED","description":"A partnership of small California nonprofits aims to level the technology playing field for the state's foster kids.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/de626ede-6749-498a-9ff4-b13701669d4c/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Tena Rubio\u003c/strong>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11036097/laptop-give-away-program-helps-foster-kids-succeed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years of abuse at home, 19-year-old Dennisse Aldana of Los Angeles was placed into foster care when she was 17. Like many foster kids, she lacked the tools needed for today’s digital world. Even the most basic tool in a young student’s life — a laptop computer — was out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All throughout high school I didn’t have a laptop, and I felt like I was limited to what I could really accomplish in class,” recalls Aldana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with her fellow students, she typed her essays on her smartphone. Then she emailed them to herself to print out at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldana couldn’t help noticing that her friends all had laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They always just brought their essays right on time. They didn’t have to ask for any extensions. Their essays would be great,” Aldana says. “And then I would look at mine. I was never proud of my essays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a partnership of small California nonprofits aims to level the technology playing field for foster kids like Aldana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those organizations is volunteer-driven, Los Angeles-based \u003ca href=\"http://fostercarecounts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foster Care Counts\u003c/a>. Started in 2012 to serve foster youth and the agencies that support them, it focuses on helping kids get the technical and emotional skills they need to become financially independent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to board member Winnie Wechsler, laptops are a must-have for these kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is impossible for a teenager today to succeed in college or the workplace without a laptop computer,” says Wechsler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Care Counts connects youngsters with the group iFoster, which can secure laptops for these youth at $225 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We surveyed more than 30,000 caregivers, foster parents, youth and social workers to find out what foster kids need most,” says co-founder Serita Cox. “And when it came to concrete goods, access to a computer was the one thing missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11038631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11038631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Dennisse Aldana, a student at Glendale Community College, received a refurbished laptop from iFoster. \" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-1180x748.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/DenisseLibrary-960x609.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennisse Aldana, a student at Glendale Community College, received a refurbished laptop from iFoster. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>iFoster and Foster Care Counts commissioned a study by Dr. Jeremy Goldbach at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work. Between 2013 and 2015, he followed the impact laptops had on 730 foster kids ages 16-21 in four California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In academic performance we saw that young people after receiving the laptops reported higher grades, fewer missed days of school and work, and increased pursuit of college and employment,” says Goldbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also noted other measures of success. “We saw a change around social connectivity and found improved relationships with biological families and with foster families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, iFoster says more than 8,000 refurbished laptops have been handed out to foster kids across the country — about half of them to kids here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennisse Aldana was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just changed my life because I’m actually doing better in college now. I have a laptop and that’s helping me get through college,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She dreams of one day starting a robotics program for foster kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just hope I do something good when I grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she has some college applications to type out. This time on her own laptop.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11036097/laptop-give-away-program-helps-foster-kids-succeed","authors":["byline_news_11036097"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_18085","news_4035","news_17629","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11038626","label":"news_72"},"news_10813505":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10813505","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10813505","score":null,"sort":[1451926858000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"providing-a-stable-foster-care-system-for-california-youth","title":"New Efforts to Provide a Stable Foster Care System for California Youth","publishDate":1451926858,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There are more than 60,000 children in foster care in California. Serving their needs depends largely on finding foster parents who can provide them with stable housing and care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her teens, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201512111000\">Jennifer Rodriguez \u003c/a>bounced between group homes, youth shelters and juvenile hall. Growing up, she says, her mother was a paranoid schizophrenic and her father was incarcerated. As a foster youth, Rodriguez says she was often described as manipulative. She would frequently run away, get into fights, and spend time in psychiatric hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were her coping and surviving mechanisms, she now says. She used them as a way of dealing with life in the system. Now Rodriguez has a law degree and runs a nonprofit that works to improve foster care. The scrappy qualities that she used to survive as a foster youth are today valued in her profession as an advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That experience of never being parented and not growing up with a family had the greatest impact,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10813740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10813740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-1440x809.jpg\" alt=\"In her teens, Jennifer Rodriguez bounced between foster group homes, youth shelters and juvenile hall. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-1440x809.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-1920x1078.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JenniferRodriguezcropped.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her teens, Jennifer Rodriguez bounced between foster group homes, youth shelters and juvenile hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Rodriguez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239471442\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez never was allowed to live with a foster family because of her behavioral issues. Like many foster teens, she had to live in group homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fundamentally the thing that children need most in order to heal and to thrive is that relationship with an adult who loves them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phasing Out Group Homes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Governor Jerry Brown signed a law intended to scale back the use of group homes by the state's foster care system. Instead of leaving foster youth to the care of the staff in a group home, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201512140900\">Assembly Bill 403\u003c/a> (AB 403), will place children more quickly into foster families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster youth will stay at treatment centers for a maximum of six months and group homes will be officially be phased out around 2021. These treatment centers are designed to better fuse the services of the mental health and child welfare systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law goes into effect in January as part of a larger framework called the \u003ca title=\"View What is California's Continuum of Care Reform on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/293252033\">Continuum of Care Reform.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Deport, who is deputy director of the Human Services Agency of San Francisco, says this is a big undertaking and will require recruiting, finding and securing families who are willing to provide an adequate level of care for foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to make sure that kids transition out to be successful adults in our society,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239471440\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aging Out of Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafosteringconnections.org/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Extending-Foster-Care-to-Age-21-LA-Urban-Institute.pdf\">a 2009 Report from the Urban Institute,\u003c/a> one in five foster care youth will become homeless after the age 18, and one in four will be involved in the justice system within two years of aging out of the child welfare system. Those numbers prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201512211000\">California to extend the age foster youth receive benefits to 21\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239867259\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Noel Anaya has been in foster care since he was 4 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was 18, I realized, that I had [this year] plus a year to go. So after high school, [I] figured out a game plan, you know go to college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sticking to a game plan is difficult he says. Foster youth often have to worry about things that might not even cross the mind of a privileged youth who is the same age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go through a midlife crisis at the age of 18, 19, 20, because you're like, 'Oh my God is my credit good, is my housing stable, [are] my funds right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Choosing to Be a Foster Parent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of paperwork, home study and licensing that goes into becoming a foster parent. But Sheri Justice-Cook says even though the job is challenging, it's also fulfilling and important. Justice-Cook is currently fostering two children and a legal guardian of two other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need socialization skills. A lot of the children didn't have limits and boundaries set upon them prior to entering into foster care. It's not just difficult for the foster parents, it's difficult for the kids. Just imagine being snatched out of your house and taken to a strange person's house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239872180\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says being a foster parent is a two way street -- it's hard for both the parents and the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of children have a hard time attaching with us because they feel disloyal to their parents, you know. 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Instead of leaving foster youth to the care of the staff in a group home, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201512140900\">Assembly Bill 403\u003c/a> (AB 403), will place children more quickly into foster families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster youth will stay at treatment centers for a maximum of six months and group homes will be officially be phased out around 2021. 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