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It’s proven. Using iFoster decreases the needs of your families, improves their well-being, and improves placement stability. Engaging your youth with iFoster also improves their grades, their enrollment and persistence in college, their employment, their connections to a support network, and their life-satisfaction. Whether you’re helping families or individual youth aging out of care, iFoster wants to make it easier for you to connect your clients to what they need.
iFoster CEO wins 2022 Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.
Overview Raised in the child welfare system, Serita Cox was impacted by challenges that many foster youth face — housing instability, disrupted education, and involvement with the juvenile justice system. Despite these challenges, Cox achieved personal and career...
How Are You Engaging Gen Z – The Future of Your Business?
By Reid Cox, founder and CFO of iFoster Gen Z are very different than any generation before them. Are you providing what they need? Who are Gen Z? Gen Z are young people born between 1997 and 2012 who are currently between 9 to 24 years old. There are 67 million of...
The New Year’s Cliff for California Foster Care Requires a Community Solution
By Serita Cox Illustration by Christine Ongjoco On Jan. 1, 2022, we estimate that 3,600 California youth will age out of the foster care system. On a single day. The fact that we — those of us working in the child welfare system, and the state system itself — cannot...
Foster Care Youth Face a Pandemic Cliff. Congress Needs to Protect Them Now.
If lawmakers don’t act quickly, on September 30th vital Federal Covid-19 protections for current and former young people in foster care will end. This could have dire impacts for young people like me, who are or have been...
#ReUPChafee: Urge Congress to Continue Support for Older Youth from Foster Care During COVID-19
Check out Bill HR5167 which encourages Congress to extend the moratorium on aging out of foster care to September 2022 as well as increase funding for pandemic relief & provide more time to distribute funds to former & current #fosteryouth. Click here to sign...
Pandemic Relief Funds for California Foster Youth Slow to Reach Needy Young Adults as Deadline Approaches
By Martín Macías, Jr., The Imprint California plans to distribute pandemic relief funds to current and former foster youth. But with a Sep. 3 application deadline approaching, advocates say the process has confused and even denied eligible youth, stalling much-needed...
Program That Gives Foster Youths Phone Access Gets Extended By CPUC
By KHTS- AM 1220 / FM 98.1 Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita announced Thursday The iFoster Pilot Program received an extension from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to help provide foster youths with smartphones. This decision extends the iFoster,...
‘New Government Benefit’ Providing Cell Phones to California Foster Youth Made Permanent
One of California’s foster youth who received a free phone through iFoster’s pilot program. The California Public Utilities Commission voted to make permanent the program that offers current and former foster youth in California a free phone and Wi-Fi access. Photo...
Power of Peers – Equitable Vaccinations
Spotlight on iFoster, an AmeriCorps Program June 23, 2021 This year, iFoster has focused its TAY AmeriCorps program to address the inequity of vaccinations in California. TAY AmeriCorps members are either current or former foster youth themselves and...
State Senate approves Wilk’s “LifeLine Foster Youth” bill
State Sen. Scott Wilk (pictured) and other local legislators reconvened Monday for a second year of their two-year session in Sacramento. Courtesy of Scott Wilk Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, received unanimous support Tuesday for Senate Bill 546,...
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Explore numerous resources and supports to help youth and families. You can set up a free account in our portal today or help your client set up their own to gain access to:
- Daily living expenses support
- Discounts/coupons
- Education and employment aids
- Self-directed life skills trainings
- And much more!
Peers Paving the Path
Peers Paving the path connects current and former foster youth with a Medi-Cal Certified Peer Support Specialist who has lived experience in foster care. Youth work one-on-one to create a personalized plan focused on stability, independence, and achieving their education, career, and life goals. This is a free program for eligible youth ages 16–26 in California who are preparing for or transitioning out of care. We can also help connect you to similar programs in your state.
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