Justin Slaughter
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World Enabled/Pineda Foundation seeks youth advocates w/ diabilities to audition for “Sharing the Voice and Diversity of Youth” video project
The Deadline to Apply is: February 10, 2012…
Source: Youth Organizing Disabled & Proud, January 31, 2012
Notes from January 13, 2012 Young Adult Advisory
TweetOn Friday January 13, 2012, TAYSF had its fourth Young Adult Advisory board meeting of the 2011-2012. Jess Lin, Project Coordinator for the Youth Count! Study and Coco Auserwald, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, conducted a focus group to gather input from young people about how best to conduct the study. The Youth Count! [...]
San Francisco Examiner reports on need for youth in foster care to have option of extended care
‘It kind of threw me off for the first month,’ Evans said, recalling the sudden responsibility of having to pay his own bills and shop for his own groceries. Evans, now 20, lives by himself in a Daly City apartment. He is taking general studies courses at City College of San Francisco and hopes to become an auto mechanic.
But while he said he was thriving on his own, he was happy to hear about a new law that will let current foster children stay in the system until they turn 21…”
Source: Amy Crawford, San Francisco Examiner, January 8, 2012
New York Times reports on drop in aid for child care while need increases
“BALTIMORE — With states under pressure to cut their budgets and federal stimulus money gone, low-income working parents are facing a paradox. Just when they have to work longer hours to make ends meet, they are losing access to the thing they need most to stay on the job: a government subsidy that helps pay for child care…”
Source: Sabrina Tavernise, NYTimes, December 13, 2011
Interview w/ LeaJay Harper, Program Coordinator for Young Mothers United, Center for Young Women’s Development
TweetInterview w/ LeaJay Harper, Program Coordinator for Young Mothers United, Center for Young Women’s Development by Justin Slaughter, TAYSF AmeriCorps VISTA Research 1. What programs and/or services does Young Mothers United offer? For what age/population? Young Mothers United advocates for young mothers involved in the juvenile justice system. Mostly we work with young women of color, 16-24 years old, probably 70% San Francisco residents. However, we will take anyone from anywhere; for example, we take young women from Richmond, Oakland, etc. Our advocacy may include our staff accompanying [...]
Young Adult Voices: Interview w/ TAYSF Young Adult Advocate Nadiyah Shereff
TweetInterview w/ Nadiyah Shereff, TAYSF Young Adult Advocate by Alma Ruznic, TAYSF Young Adult Advocate 1. Name, Age, Position Nadiyah Shereff, 25, Young Adult Advocate for TAYSF 2. Who is Nadiyah Shereff? Nadiyah: Nadiyah Shereff is a 25-year-old African American young mother from San Francisco. Growing up [...]
California Coalition for Youth to host annual “Taking Action Conference” in Sacramento for youth and youth advocates
When: April 15 – 17th
Where: Embassy Suites Sacramento – Riverfront Promenade…
Source: California Coalition for Youth, January 17, 2011
Know Justice Conference 2012 to convene service providers and youth involved with justice system to give them free access to tools and resources
When: Wednesday, Feb 15th, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: Main Library, San Francisco, CA…
Source: Center for Young Women’s Development, January 11, 2012
Governor Jerry Brown supports eliminating California’s prisons for youth offenders
“Juvenile crime rates have plunged in every major county in California from 1998 to 2010. The rates of serious youth crime are now the lowest since statewide statistics were first collected in 1954, according to the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice…”
Source: Karen de Sa, Mercury News, January 6, 2012
Larry Robbin training for all youth workforce providers in Oakland on new hiring environment
When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 ▪ 9:00AM to 12:00 Noon
Where: The Elihu Harris State Building, 1515 Clay Street, 2nd Floor, Room 1, Oakland, CA 94612…
Source: Eastbay Works, January 7, 2011
