Impact Stories 2013
This video was created for the Alliance’s 21st Annual Dinner on Thursday, March 7, 2013. The video highlights two families the Alliance worked with in 2012-2013: the Donaby and Parra families.
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April 2013
Greenberg Glusker Takes on a Bank so Transitioning Youth Can Start Her Life
When she was four years-old, Victoria M. was struck by a bus while crossing the street. She sustained extensive injuries, and was awarded more than $100,000 from the bus company. Due to her age at the time, the money was put in a trust that she could only access after she turned 18. That was
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Everychild Foundation Funds New Project
As former foster youth and their new adoptive families celebrated National Adoption Day on November 16, Public Counsel and the Alliance for Children’s Rights announced a first-of-its-kind project to help newly formed Los Angeles families stay together and thrive. The new project will be funded by a grant from the Everychild Foundation, which every year
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Metzger Law Group Supports New Clinic
Thank you to the Metzger Law Group for their generous donation to the Alliance’s Children’s Health & Advocacy Clinic (CHAC), a Medical-Legal Partnership between doctors at LA County + USC Medical Center and Alliance attorneys. CHAC is an innovative collaboration that ensures abused and neglected children have access to legal services as part of comprehensive
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Obama Signs Uninterrupted Scholars Act
Congressional leaders recently came together to champion a law to improve education outcomes for foster youth. The Uninterrupted Scholars Act (USA) passed both houses of Congress by January 1, 2013 and was signed by President Barrack Obama on January 14, 2013 amidst intense pressure to resolve the looming fiscal cliff. USA amended federal education law
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