How Are You Engaging Gen Z – The Future of Your Business?
By Reid Cox, founder and CFO of iFoster Gen Z are very different than any generation before them. Are you providing what they need? Who are Gen Z? Gen Z are young people born between 1997 and 2012 who are currently between 9 to 24 years old. There are 67 million of...
The New Year’s Cliff for California Foster Care Requires a Community Solution
By Serita Cox Illustration by Christine Ongjoco On Jan. 1, 2022, we estimate that 3,600 California youth will age out of the foster care system. On a single day. The fact that we — those of us working in the child welfare system, and the state system itself — cannot...
Foster Care Youth Face a Pandemic Cliff. Congress Needs to Protect Them Now.
If lawmakers don’t act quickly, on September 30th vital Federal Covid-19 protections for current and former young people in foster care will end. This could have dire impacts for young people like me, who are or have been...
#ReUPChafee: Urge Congress to Continue Support for Older Youth from Foster Care During COVID-19
Check out Bill HR5167 which encourages Congress to extend the moratorium on aging out of foster care to September 2022 as well as increase funding for pandemic relief & provide more time to distribute funds to former & current #fosteryouth. Click here to sign...