Teen Talk Foster Youth is a free, virtual, community-based sex ed series for youth in California foster care, coordinated by the Reproductive Health Equity Project. This curriculum meets requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act, as well as the California Foster Youth Sexual Health Education Act. It is taught by leading educators & community-based organizations including Planned Parenthood of Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley & Black Women for Wellness.
Fostering Parenthood: Reimagining “The Talk” With Caregivers And Foster Youth.
Talking to our teens about their sexual health journey can be intimidating but with Fostering Parenthood, you’re not alone. Together, we will talk about these important conversations through lived experience and provide helpful ideas, best practices, and resources. Our goal is helping our children and youth in foster care become informed, strong, and confident individuals.
Self Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life. This podcast is from foster youth, for foster youth, with unfiltered conversations about sex, health and life. These are conversations about puberty, relationships, sexual health, identity and much more that we wish were part of our upbringing. We hope these conversations spark questions and provide resources for you, to find answers, feel empowered, and have community.
Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) is critical to our overall health and wellness. Our Youth Advisory Board members talk about WHY sexual and reproductive health matters to them. This series includes topics such as Our Communities Deserve STI Testing & Equitable Access to Sex Ed, Talking About Sexual and Reproductive Health to Beat Shame and Stigma, Being Informed Helps You Protect Yourself— and Others, and more.
A benefit of $2,700 became available in January 2022 for all pregnant foster youth in California. In this webinar, attendees learned about the new benefit, eligibility, and requirement for county implementation. This webinar is intended for child welfare agency administrators, caseworkers, caregivers advocates, other supportive adults, and young people in care.
John Burton Advocates for Youth, is conducting the California Foster Youth Tax Project to help foster youth file their taxes. This establishes Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites to assist foster youth with filing their taxes for free. This brings economic resources to parenting foster youth and their children.
On September 26th, 2023, CDSS released a report entitled “Performance Outcome Data on the Implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Training and Education”, an extensive, first of its kind report focused on reproductive & maternal health outcomes for young people in California’s foster care system. This webinar explains how the data in this innovative report was developed and review key findings.
The policy briefs includes SB 89 Implementation in the Bay Area, California Foster Youth Bill of Rights, and our youth-led research on former foster youth’s experiences with barriers and health during COVID-19.
This webinar presents results from the survey, conducted in the summer of 2023, including where youth get sexual health information, how they access care, and the barriers they face while highlighting differences based on age, gender, sexual orientation, or racial/ethnic identity. The presentation provides opportunities to discuss implications for policy and practice and possible next steps.
The evaluation briefs include evaluation a sexual and reproductive health training for healthcare providers, court professionals, DCFS social workers and other DCFS personnels as well as a qualitative evaluation of DCFS Expectant and Parenting Conferences program and more!
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