Foster Care Updates

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! [...]

TweetInterview w/ Martha B Acacio, Director of TAY Mental Health Clinic By Justin Slaughter, TAYSF AmeriCorps VISTA 1.)    What is your TAY program? Who does it serve and what are its goals? Under the City of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, the Transitional Age Youth Mental Health clinic provides 16-25 year-old with comprehensive mental [...]

TweetInterview with Young Adult Advocate Claudia Mendez by Jose-Luis, Young Adult Advocate Why & how did you hear about the program [Guardian Scholars]? Claudia Mendez:I heard about GSP when I applied to SFSU. I was referred by the Educational Opportunity Program. I applied to GSP because they provided year-round housing, priority registration, free and unlimited [...]

TweetWithout stable and safe housing, disconnected youth and young adults face a considerable battle to become self sufficient. Before any education or employment goals can even be considered, housing needs to be addressed; the cost for not doing so leaves young people couch surfing, staying in unsafe living environments, homeless and ultimately at high risk of becoming chronically homeless adults. We hear from young people [...]