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Assembly members and advocates back multi-agency foster-care office to improve coordination
Summary
Advocates and Assembly members urged creation of a state-level foster care multi-agency office with authority to coordinate agencies — education, mental health, housing and others — to better serve foster youth and ensure laws are implemented consistently across California.
Advocates and legislators pressed for a new foster care multi-agency office to centralize coordination across systems that touch foster youth, arguing fragmentation leaves young people without consistent access to education, health care, and other supports.
Simone Turek Lee of John Burton Advocates for Youth told the subcommittee that state law sets expectations but implementation often fails at the county level where child welfare must rely on other systems. "We now have legal adults in foster care who…
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