Tools and Links to Related Materials
Websites
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American Bar Association |
This website provides users with a searchable database of legal and policy resources and houses announcements of events and newly developed information. The Web site contains three significant components to assist anyone who is interested in legal issues surrounding education of children and youth in care: a Resource Clearinghouse, a National Foster Care/Education Listserv, and Topical Conference Calls. |
Chapin Hall
Research on foster and probation youth, including their educational performance and long-term outcomes.
Child Welfare Services - CWS/CMS Reports
Timely and useful data about children in the California Child Welfare System.
Children’s Law Center of Los
Angeles
Current information about AB 490, AB 408, and other key legislation affecting foster youth in California, as well as current initiatives and training materials.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Common Good Forecaster
The Common Good Forecaster: Exploring the
Impact of Education in Your Community is an online database created
and developed by United Way and the American Human Development Project
This interactive site allows the user to
see how differing levels of education (less than high school, high
school, some college , college graduate and more) impacts other
areas of well being, including health (life expectancy in years,
low birth weight, obesity and homicide rate), financial stability
(poverty, median personal earnings, unemployment), civic participation
(voter turnout) and more. Data can be manipulated for each state
and for states’ counties.
Foster Care Alumni of America
The mission of Foster Care Alumni of America is to connect the alumni community and to transform policy and practice, ensuring opportunity for people in and from foster care.
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Living Advantage, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded by Bernice W. Clay to carry out her mission to help underprivileged youth in areas of special education, severe emotional and behavioral problems, and speech impediments. |
Foster Ed Connect
Foster Ed Connectv is a free online community and resource clearinghouse
for all people helping California foster children succeed in school.
The site features a dynamic database of information, forums for
asking questions of subject matter experts and peers, and a calendar
of upcoming events, training, and conferences. The community
has over 500 registered members from all over the state.
Healthy City
Healthy City is California's information and
action resource for service referrals and social change. You
can search for community services, research and share community
data, and consult the Healthy City team for strategic advice.
The site is organized around a Zip Code search engine for finding
local services.
Ideas
at UCLA
IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access
and Success) is a site dedicated to helping undocumented students
gain access to and support for their pursuit of higher education.
This effort was founded at
UCLA but works to help all undocumented students.
Kidsdata.org
Kidsdata.org offers more than 300 indicators
on the health and well-being of children in every county, city, and
school district in California. The website, launched
in 2004, is a project of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's
Health.
Users have permission to cite the information and reproduce
the tables, graphs, and maps on Kidsdata.org for research, reports,
and other work. Nearly all data on the site are from public sources,
though some indicators come from a Lucile Packard Foundation survey
of parents about their child’s well-being. Regular data
updates and analyses are provided by Population Reference Bureau
and foundation staff.
Surrogate
Parents in California Special Education Manual
Federal and state laws mandate that
a child receiving special education programs and services be represented
by a parent who is recognized as an equal member of the team that
develops the child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP.)
This prepublication release of the revised manual to train surrogate
parents to serve as child representatives in California Special
Education provides information to local education agencies (LEAs),
Special Education Local Plan Areas (SELPAs), parent and family
centers, and volunteers who are willing to serve as surrogates
on when and how a surrogate parent may be appointed.
Zero to Three
Research on children ages birth to 3 years, public policy initiatives, and training materials.
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