Amazon Smile If you’re shopping online this holiday season be sure to register with Amazon’s program for charitable giving. You can shop for presents while donating to the Alliance. Sign up at smile.amazon.com and a percentage of eligible purchases will benefit the Alliance. It adds up! Be sure to always shop at smile.amazon.com after registering. …
On November 15, we held our 10th Annual Thanksgiving for Transition-Age Youth at Community Coalition. It was a smashing success with over 50 youth in attendance. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Heirloom LA for donating their delicious food, time and heart to the event. In addition to providing a delicious Thanksgiving …
“Sometimes in life you come upon the realization that you are backed into a corner and may not stand to win a fight with your own resources.” -Cherie, loving caregiver to her granddaughter This perfectly captures a sentiment shared by many of our clients, especially grandparents and other relative caregivers. Imagine being retired and taking …
Witnessing the happy faces of the children whose adoptions we finalize is the foundation of what we do. But it isn’t the start or end of our advocacy for children and their families. Many of the faces we see at Adoption Day are sweet faces we’ve seen before. Rosie, top left, came to us through …
Star Jordana Brewster and activist Yasmine Delawari Johnson are among the industry women who’ve formed the Alliance of Moms, an auxiliary of the Alliance for Children’s Rights, to bring medical care and educational programs to vulnerable L.A. teens. Read the cover story in the August issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
Graduation and summer job season is here. The Alliance has packed June full of events for foster youth to beef up their job skills and experience. Graduations The month kicked off with several graduations, including 24 students from the First Star UCLA Bruin Guardian Scholars Academy. For the past two years, our team has tracked …
We are thrilled that Alliance staff will be presenting at conferences this summer, including the San Diego Foster Care Education Summit, the ABA’s National Conference on Children and the Law and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference. We look forward to sharing our experiences and expertise and learning best practices from …
AB 423: Enhancements to the Approved Relative Caregiver Program AB 423 is a clean-up bill that addresses the state’s new Approved Relative Caregiver Program. AB 423 will ensure that families start receiving CalWORKs benefits immediately upon the placement of the child(ren) into their home by requiring counties to initiate the funding. This will ensure that …
$300,000 raised at comedy night with stellar lineup of talent, including Sarah Silverman and Bob Odenkirk.
This year, we celebrate 10 years and 20,000 incredible youth reached through our NextStep Program for Transition-Age Youth. It all started with a vision in 2000 to make a difference in the lives of young people in their final years of foster care. Since that time, we have responded to changing needs such as laws …
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