May is Foster Care and Mental Health Awareness Month
Allies for Every Child is proud to commemorate both Foster Care Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month this May. This year’s theme for Foster Care Awareness Month, “Strengthening Minds. Uplifting Families,” highlights the need to take a holistic and culturally responsive approach to supporting the mental health needs of kids and families. Follow along […]
Foster Family Agency Funding Needed to Support Kids and Youth
As a Foster Family Agency (FFA) and member of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services, Allies for Every Child joins the California Alliance in urging state legislators to approve a budget request (FFA rate increase) to support youth in foster care. This funding would provide a critically needed increase for FFA rates until […]
Center on the Developing Child: “Place Matters” for Children
A new working paper by the Center on the Developing Child, “Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development,” highlights the growing body of research on the important role that children’s and families’ environments play in child development. By analyzing the impact that various interconnected environments (the social environment, built and […]
Allies Supports Legislation to End Youth Homelessness
Allies for Every Child has joined John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY) to urge California legislators to pass AB 525 and AB 799, which would improve the state’s efforts to prevent and ultimately end youth homelessness. The need for these investments in young adults could not be more clear: Nearly half of youth in foster […]
New Report on Parents in Foster Care
A new report out of UC Berkeley, “Parents in Foster Care: Trends over time from the CalYOUTH Study,” concludes that there’s a real need for programs focused on Transition Age Youth (TAY) parents and their children: “The extension of foster care through age 21 allows youth to remain in care for three additional years, and […]
National Charity League Helps Keep Allies Garden Growing
Volunteers with National Charity League have lent Allies their green thumb and elbow grease this Fall. Thanks to their fundraising and volunteerism, the garden at the Early Education Center has lots of new plants and soil, and tools to help keep everything growing as it should. We’re so grateful for this partnership, and for all […]
Fighting Child Poverty in 2023 and Beyond
Allies for Every Child and nearly 300 other anti-poverty organizations recently signed a letter by the First Focus Campaign for Children urging Congress to reinstate the enhanced Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit. From July–December 2021, these policy improvements had incredibly positive impacts on children and families which should be made permanent. The […]
Allies Joins Call to Fix California’s Guardian System
Allies for Every Child has joined California Alliance of Child and Family Services in calling on the state of California to improve the Guardian Background Check System to better serve children and families. Guardian is a background check system initially launched in January 2021 by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS). While intended to […]
Children’s Arts Festival
Children’s Arts Festival is Allies’ annual celebration of arts, family, and community. Join us this year for a week of arts activities, giveaways, and family fun. For more information, please contact your Allies staff member, or email our Development Director at kmooney@alliesforeverychild.org.
Back to School Bash this August
Join us this Saturday for a Back to School Bash! School supplies are available for the first 900 children. Event registration is required! If you have any questions, please send us a DM on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Culver City Teen Center 4153 South Overland Ave Culver City, CA 90230
LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Where are their Resource Families?
Allies was honored to present yesterday at the National Adoption Association Conference on the critical need for LGBTQ resource parents and LGBTQ-affirming homes. Nationally, more than 30% of youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ+, which is a rate 3x higher than their peers who are not in the system. It is essential that these […]
Success at the Big Hearts of Summer 2022
What a night! Thank you to everyone who helped make Big Hearts of Summer 2022 a success. We were honored to celebrate Carla du Manoir and her incredible legacy that she built over many years at Allies. Special thanks to our planning committee and co-chairs Melissa Wiczyk, Sheila Nazarian, JoJo Fleiss, Patty Penske, Jennifer Wagner […]
