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House of Delegates resumes Foster Youth Legislative Shadow Day; 17 youth to shadow delegates
Summary
Chair Wilson announced the return of the Foster Youth Legislative Shadow Day in Annapolis, saying 17 young people from the foster care system will shadow delegates and asking that delegates pick them up personally by 12:50 p.m. in Room 140.
Chair Wilson announced that the House of Delegates has resumed its Foster Youth Legislative Shadow Day in Annapolis, saying 17 young people from the foster care system will shadow legislators today.
The program, which Chair Wilson said she began in February 2016 and paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, returned with 17 participants. “We finally got our children back,” Chair Wilson said, adding that the event gives foster youth an opportunity to shadow delegates and learn about the legislative process.
To accommodate the Speaker Society luncheon, Chair Wilson said the pickup time for delegates was moved and asked colleagues to collect their assigned youth in person. “We need you to pick them up by 12:50, please, in Room 140,” she said. She asked that delegates not send staff or aides to collect the students and noted the pickup location is on the first floor of the House office building.
Chair Wilson also said more people had signed up to host a shadow than there were children available this year and expressed a hope to include more participants in future sessions.
Later in the session, the Majority Leader moved that the House stand recessed until Thursday, March 20, at 10:00 a.m.; the motion was made on the floor and was recorded in the transcript, but no vote or final disposition appears in the provided transcript excerpt.
