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To submit an announcement to the FYA Weekly Bulletin, email Amy Freeman: bulletins@fosteryouthalliance.org. Announcements received by Wednesday morning will be included in the Thursday Bulletin.
If you cannot view this bulletin clearly, click here to read it at http://www.acfya.org/bulletin/index.htm
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| FYA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR MANAGERS: MAR. 2 |
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| On Thursday, March 2, from 12:00-2:00, the FYA Brown Bag Series for Managers will address “Supervision Skills.” This training will be held at Ross House, 485 Ninth Street, Oakland, near the 12th Street BART station. Click here for the schedule of upcoming trainings.
This training is a joint project of FYA, Seneca Center, and Chabot FKCE. To RSVP, email Amy Freeman at afreeman@fosteryouthalliance.org or call 510-444-4025, x235.
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Roundtable Discussion on Serving Transitional Youth: March 15
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U.C. Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and the City and County of San Francisco present a “policy in practice” roundtable discussion to offer practical guidelines and best practice models for municipalities and nonprofits providing services to transitional youth.
Building Bridges:
Keeping Youth Connected
How are municipalities and nonprofit service providers putting
service integration and inter-agency collaboration into practice?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., with reception to follow
South Light Court, City Hall
San Francisco, CA
Participants will include:
• Michael S. Wald, Moderator. Michael S. Wald is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
• Linda Harris, Panelist. Linda Harris is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, where her focus is at-risk youth policy.
• Amy Lemley, Panelist. Lemley co-founded Oakland, California’s First Place Fund for Youth, a nonprofit organization offering a broad spectrum of services to youth aging out of the foster care system. She is currently serving as a Policy Advisor for the John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes.
• Laura Shubilla, Panelist. Laura Shubilla is a co-founder and President of the Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN), a nonprofit, youth workforce development intermediary that promotes academic achievement and career success for 14 to 21 year-olds in Philadelphia .
• Additional panelists will be named shortly, including a youth representative on the panel. Click here to download flyer for youth panelist recruitment.
Panelists and participants will share their practical experience and sharpen awareness of promising solutions in this challenging area.
“Building Bridges: Keeping Youth Connected” is made possible through the generous contributions, both financial and in-kind, of the City and County of San Francisco Human Services Agency, the City and County of San Francisco Youth Commission, the City and County of San Francisco Mayor's Office of Public Policy and Finance, the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley, and Honoring Emancipated Youth, a community project of United Way of the Bay Area.
Youth are welcome!
Event services are being provided by BayCat and Corners Café, two leading youth training and employment providers in the Bay Area. In addition to youth speakers and panelists, we encourage transitional youth advocacy groups and youth-driven nonprofit organizations to attend and join in the roundtable discussion.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT GO TO
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/buildingbridges/
Questions? Email BuildingBridgesSF@gmail.com
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| Pivotal Point Youth Services Workshops |
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Pivotal Point Youth Services is offering a 12 week Entrepreneurship Training Program for youth ages 16-24. Classes begin February 18th, and will be held on Saturdays from 10:00-2:00 at PPYS, 2647 International Blvd., Suite 320. For more information or to sign up for Entrepreneurship Training, contact Lanitra at 510-334-0509. Click here for the flyer.
There are still openings in the Pivotal Point Money Management class, which meets on Mondays from 4:30-6:00. If interested in Money Management class, contact Nolita Bentley at 510-536-6589. Click here for the flyer.
The Life Coaching class at Pivotal Point meets Wednesdays from 4:00-6:30 and focuses on defining goals, discovering inner strength, and developing healthy relationships and positive connections. For more information, contact Pivotal Point at 536-6604. Click here for the flyer.
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| Media Coverage of Foster Care Issues |
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Click here to read a 2.14.06 op ed piece from the SF Chronicle: "Out of the Foster Care Lifeboat" by Miriam Krinsky of Home at Last and the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles and Donna Butts of Generations United.
Please also read the latest Chronicle editorial highlighting Senator Kevin Murray's Bill addressing the inequity in the funding ratio for THP-Plus. This is the latest legislation to come out of the "Campaign for Safe Transitions" and is co-sponsored by FYA, HEY and the John Burton Foundation for Children without Homes. Click here for the article.
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| There are still tickets available for Comedy for the Community, benefitting Covenant House California, Larkin Street Youth Services, and Real Options for Kids, sponsored by HarvardSF and Raptorhead. The event will take place on Thursday, February 23rd, with social time at 7:00 p.m. and show time at 8:00 p.m. at SF Comedy Club, 50 Mason Street in San Francisco. Tickets are $20, and all proceeds benefit the organizations above. For tickets and information, call 415-398-4129 or go to www.50masonlounge.com. |
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South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative
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The South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative is seeking a highly committed and qualified leader capable of living and breathing "collaboration." The South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative, SoHNC, is a community led effort that has successfully mobilized local residents, community leaders, service providers, partners and public agencies “ for the good of the whole” since 1994. Together and through consistent and effective collaboration, the SoHNC addresses health, safety, education and social community needs including and utilizing neighbors in the solution of pressing challenges that act as negative forces toward healthier and positive life experiences.
Click here for the Job Announcement.
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| Renaissance Scholars Program EAP Camp: Change in dates |
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| The Renaissance Scholars Program 2nd annual Early Academic Planning Camp (EAPC) will now be held May 12-13, 2006. Camp will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Friday and end at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. (This is a change from previous announcements.) The EAP Camp, to be held at the Quaker Center (www.quakercenter.org), is designed to shape the academic pathways of thirty eligible 8th grade foster youth through 3 days of academic planning, goal-setting, personal reflection and mentoring.
The Application deadline is March 31st, which means the application needs to be in the hands of Renaissance Scholars Program Staff at UCSC that day. To receive application materials via email or hard copy, contact NikiAnne Feinberg, Program Assistant, Renaissance Scholars Program, UC Santa Cruz, at 831-459-4063 or nikianne@ucsc.edu.
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| Students Rising Above Seeks Mentor |
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Students Rising Above is looking for a part-time mentor to work with students who received awards through their program. The mentorship would continue for several years (through graduation of college, so about 4-5 years).
Students Rising Above (SRA) was created in 1998 by KRON 4 Anchor Wendy Tokuda and began as a series of news stories featuring low-income Bay Area youth rising above tremendous odds of poverty, homelessness, abandonment and neglect. In 2004, the program obtained 501(c)3 status and is now a year round program helping qualified students attend and graduate from college. SRA provides individualized financial and mentoring support through college until graduation. This Peabody and National Emmy award winning program has inspired donors to send over 109 students to four year universities across the country. More information about SRA is available at www.studentsrisingabove.org
The Mentor reports to the Director of Student Programs and is responsible for counseling students through the academic and social adjustments of college until graduation. SRA is hoping to hire this person in May-June so they could participate in the student interviews. No later than August. Compensation is $10,000 per year per class. More than likely this person has a "day" job and views this as a chance to make a difference in the lives of deserving students. We anticipate selecting 15 students in the class of 2007 and would like this mentor to work with the kids until they graduate.
Click here for the flyer.
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