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Foster Care Advocates and Stakeholders Call for Overall System Reform
– Recently Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) joined me for a special hearing of the Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care, to listen to foster care advocates outline some of the best practices used to help families stay together and ensure the well-being of foster youth and families. As the Chair of the Foster Care Committee, I believe California needs to find solutions to the issues and challenges facing the state’s Foster Care System. There are approximately 74,000 children in California’s Foster Care System and fifty percent of the children who enter foster care are younger than age 5. I believe far too many children are trapped in the system and remain in foster care until they “age out” at 18.
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