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“The course is
given by Youth Advocacy Center, a group of lawyers who have worked in
New York’s family courts and seen too many foster kids age out
into jail, homelessness and welfare. It teaches them how to fend for
themselves better: how to handle a job interview; how to ask the boss
for time off to deal with a personal crisis; how to get an extra credit
assignment at school to compensate for a bad grade.”
-New York Times “The
informational interview and learning about long and short-term goals
and how to structure myself – it helped my drive. It helped
me want to do more for myself.”
-Ebony Collins, GBS graduate, Wisconsin Public Radio
"Beyond the Foster Care
System: The Future for Teens, portrays the foster care system through
the personal stories of the children, their advocates, lawyers and
the authors themselves. Their remedy for the foster system's flaws
is a theory and practice of "self-advocacy" based on principles
in law and education. […] If successful, Pitcoff and Krebs's
model could make the foster care years not the defining aspect of
a young person's life, but the foundation for a productive future.”
-City Limits
“I think the resilience
and potential of the teens motivated, and continues to motivate us,
to stay at this. It can be very frustrating and disheartening. There
is a lot of bureaucracy and failures in the system, bu the teens’
promise and hope for the future is very inspiring.”
-Betsy Krebs, Litchfield Enquirer
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