FosterEd: Santa Cruz County Judge Denine Guy, Superior Court of Ca., Santa Cruz County, Juvenile Division Mark Holguin, Family and Children’s Services Michael Paynter, County Office of Education – Foster Youth Services Rachel Velcoff Hults, National Center for Youth Law Jennifer Laird, MPR Associates, Inc. 1
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FosterEd: Santa Cruz County
Judge Denine Guy, Superior Court of Ca., Santa Cruz County, Juvenile DivisionMark Holguin, Family and Children’s Services
Michael Paynter, County Office of Education – Foster Youth ServicesRachel Velcoff Hults, National Center for Youth Law
Jennifer Laird, MPR Associates, Inc.1
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Grantee:
National Center for Youth Law, FosterEd Initiative
NCYL is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California
that works to ensure that low-income children have the
resources, support, and opportunities they need for healthy
and productive lives. NCYL’s FosterEd Initiative seeks to
improve the educational outcomes of children and youth in
foster care.
FosterEd operates in California, Indiana, and Arizona.
The Santa Cruz County project is a pilot for the state of
California.
Grantee Program
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Project Description: Goals and Objectives
Improve the educational outcomes of Santa Cruz County
foster children/youth by ensuring each has an educational
champion with the beliefs, capacities, and behaviors
proven to support educational success, and is developing
educational resiliency.
Ensure that project outcomes and processes are
measurable and regularly measured, with data used to
drive improvement and evaluate success.
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Project Description:Key Collaborative Partners
County Office of Education – Foster Youth Services
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz, Juvenile Division
Human Services Department – Family and Children’s Services
Community organizations and providers, such as CASA
State-level oversight provided by California’s Improving
Educational Outcomes of Children in Care workgroup
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Project Description: Target Population
School-age children/youth who are the subject of an open Santa
Cruz County dependency case and reside in Santa Cruz County,
and their educational champions.
There are approximately 245 such children/youth in Santa Cruz
County at any given time.
To date, the project is serving approximately 60 children.
Implementation is being phased in, with children entering the
project at select points in the dependency process.
Educational resiliency work will be focused on youth ages 11 to