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services are designed to improve the children’s educational performance and personal<br />
achievement, directly benefiting the children as well as providing long-range cost<br />
savings to the state.<br />
FYS programs work through interagency collaboration with social workers, probation<br />
officers, group home staff, school staff, and community service agencies to influence<br />
foster children’s day-to-day routines, both during and after school. FYS programs<br />
may also collaborate with, complement, and supplement a variety of existing support<br />
services to help ensure delivery of comprehensive support services to foster children<br />
and youths. These services include Title I, Neglected and Delinquent Youth<br />
(Public Law 103-382) program services, Healthy Start Services, services provided by<br />
special education local plan areas (SELPAs), and Independent Living Programs, to<br />
name a few. FYS programs are funded through a noncompetitive grant process. Eligible<br />
applicants include county offices of education or a consortium of counties as a single<br />
applicant. There are FYS grant-funded programs in 57 of California’s 58 counties.<br />
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2004 (Assembly Bill 490, Steinberg) includes a provision that<br />
requires all districts to appoint an educational liaison with prescribed duties to ensure<br />
appropriate and timely educational placement and equal opportunities for foster youths.<br />
In addition to the 57 countywide FYS programs operated through county offices of<br />
education, there are district FYS programs operated through six core districts as<br />
specified in California Education Code Section 42920. All FYS programs provide<br />
educational and support services to foster youths residing in licensed foster homes.<br />
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006, contains a new provision for education-based services to<br />
foster youths in county-operated juvenile detention facilities.<br />
For more information regarding the FYS program, contact the Counseling, Student<br />
Support, and Service-Learning Office, at (916) 323-2183 or by e-mail at<br />
fosteryouth@cde.ca.gov. Additional information is also available on the FYS Web site at<br />
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/pf/fy.<br />
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