2019 Alliance Dinner Tribute Journal
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Get to Know CEO Jen Braun
Alliance CEO Jen Braun keeps the radio off as she begins her daily commute, driving from the mountains of Topanga Canyon down the Pacific Coast Highway. “I roll down the windows, no matter the weather, and I listen to the ocean,” she says. “Then I roll the windows up and hit the freeway.” By the
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Summer Jobs for Students in Foster Care Open Up a World of Possibility
Too many young adults “aging out” of foster care struggle to find gainful employment and lift themselves out of poverty and instability. At the Alliance, we are doing something about it, with the help of our partners. Kandice Lake, who is going into her junior year at The Master’s University, really wants to work in
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Yennifer’s Story
I remember that my mom would tell me to be better than her and to do the things that she wasn’t able to do. I didn’t want my daughter to ever be in the foster care system the way I was. -Yennifer The Alliance advocates for foster youth who are pregnant or parenting. We help
Omar’s Adoption Story
“Knowing that you have a place to go, someone to hug, someone to check up on you – it is a great feeling.” -Omar V. on being adopted at the age of 19 The Alliance finalizes one-third of all adoptions out of foster care in Los Angeles County for young people who often have waited
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What I Witnessed at Casa Padre Detention Center
Juan Guzman traveled to Brownsville, Texas, on July 13th to gather declarations from children in detention at Casa Padre. These are his words: I arrived in Brownsville as part of a team made up of 25 attorneys, five interpreters, and a small team of medical experts. Our purpose was to interview boys being held at
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Keeping Families Together Is Not Enough: On the Frontlines of the Border Crisis
As Alliance attorneys offer their time and expertise to support ongoing legal efforts at the border, we are sharing their personal perspectives. Here, Elise Weinberg, policy attorney at the Alliance, talks about her time at Karnes Detention Center interviewing detained mothers and children. I pulled up to the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and
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Righting a Wrong: Response to the Border Crisis
July 11, 2018 At the Alliance for Children’s Rights, our hearts and minds, like so many of yours, remain focused on the border crisis. We are profoundly concerned about the separated families and our position is unequivocal: detention of children is wrong, and the removal of children as a means of deterring immigrants seeking asylum is
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On the Border Crisis
June 25, 2018 The Alliance for Children’s Rights has long fought to ensure that young people have critical supports when they are removed from their parents. We know from our decades of work that there is nothing more traumatic for a child than being removed from their family. Removal of a child should occur only
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Alliance Win for Families on Funding at Time of Placement
The Alliance has worked for over a decade on equity for relative caregivers, who are often the first placement option for children who enter foster care. Until recently, those who take in a child on an emergency basis when they first enter foster care do not receive full foster care funding until they complete a
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