Posts Tagged ‘ Karen Bass ’

May 31, 2012 - Breaking News from our friends at Fostering Media Connections: Today, the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth introduced a bi-partisan bill that promises to streamline access to foster children’s educational records. If passed, The Access to Papers Leads to Uninterrupted Scholars Act (A+ Act), would allow foster care agencies and social workers eased access to critical information about how foster children are doing in school, by amending the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA. The...Read more »

November 21, 2011 - It was National Adoption Day on Saturday the most prominent event during National Adoption Month. Here in Alameda County, the Social Services Agency and Superior Courts held an event for adoptive families and their supporters in San Leandro on Friday. Down in LA, over 100 adoptions were finalized and celebrated on the courthouse steps. In Tulare County, 18 adoptions of foster children were finalized as part of the...Read more »