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Eye On The Valley –Carolyn Olsen, Andi Palmatier – February 23, 2024

Host: Matt Watson Guests: Carolyn Olsen, Andi Palmatier Today, on Eye On The Valley, your host Matt Watson welcomes Carolyn Olsen in studio.  Carolyn is the Cofounder and Executive Director of Fostering Youth Independence, FYI. Carolyn and her team at FYI focus on post or secondary education for foster youth ages 16-25. She was inspired to start FYI when she ...

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FYI Holds Annual ‘Celebration Of Everything’ Honoring Foster Youth And Volunteer

Fostering Youth Independence (FYI) held an event to celebrate the youth who furthered their education.   Local nonprofit FYI held a “Celebration of Everything,” its annual event appreciating the many volunteers who make such a difference in the lives of Santa Clarita foster youth, fifteen of whom were celebrated for education milestones.  “It is a tremendous honor that I get to ...

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FYI Invites Santa Clarita Community To Support Youth In Need During National Foster Care Awareness Month 

With May recognized as National Foster Care Awareness Month, local non-profit Fostering Youth Independence (FYI) is highlighting a particular challenge faced by youth aging out of foster care – homelessness.  The grim statistic is that 36 percent of these vulnerable foster youth become homeless within the first 18 months of aging out of the system. One way FYI can help ...

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Meet Gabriel: A Santa Clarita FYI Participant Defying The Odds After Foster Care

As National Foster Care Month comes to a close, Fostering Youth Indepence (FYI) in Santa Clarita has recognized an individual who has embraced the FYI community. Santa Clarita’s FYI group has chosen to spotlight Gabriel, an individual who’s endured the adversity that comes along with leaving the foster care system and faced a plethora of challenges that led him to ...

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Fostering Youth Independence Recognizes National Foster Care Month

Fostering Youth Independence (FYI), a Santa Clarita Valley non-profit, reminds the public that May is National Foster Care Month as the organization continues its mission to make a difference in the lives of Santa Clarita’s foster youth. May is National Foster Care Month, and non-profit FYI is reminding the Santa Clarita Valley about its continuing mission to support foster youth ...

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Common Ground – Foster Care Systems – December 14, 2020

Common Ground with Jason Downs

Host: Jason Downs Guests: Kéta Loren, Louis Esbin and Carolyn Olsen Topic: Foster Care Systems Common Ground – Foster Care Systems – December 14, 2020 On this episode of Common Ground, our host Jason Downs talks with his guests Kéta Loren, Carolyn Olsen, and Louis Esbin as they talk foster care systems. Jason starts out the show by talking with ...

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Bernadette Boylan of the Children’s Bureau – December 16, 2020

Host: Tori Topic: Children’s Bureau: National Foster Care Month Guest: Bernadette Boylan Right Click Here To Download! Click Here To Listen! Bernadette Boylan, Foster Care and Adoption Supervisor at Children’s Bureau, joins Tori on-air to discuss the benefits of foster care, to answer some questions prospective resource parents may have, and to stress how the pandemic has accelerated the need for ...

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Bernadette Boylan of the Children’s Bureau – November 18, 2020

Host: Tori Topic: Children’s Bureau: National Foster Care Month Guest: Bernadette Boylan Right Click Here To Download! Click Here To Listen! Bernadette Boylan, Foster Care and Adoption Supervisor at Children’s Bureau, joins Tori on-air to discuss the benefits of foster care, to answer some questions prospective resource parents may have, and to stress how the pandemic has accelerated the need for ...

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Children’s Bureau Offering Online Foster-Adoption Orientations 

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Children’s Bureau is offering an online foster-adoption orientation for individuals or couples who are interested in either temporarily or permanently adopting children in the foster care, officials said Wednesday.   Due to the current health crisis, the need for foster and adoptive resource parents to help local at-risk youth stay in their communities has spiked, according to Children Bureau officials.  In ...

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Children’s Bureau: National Foster Care Month – May 27, 2020

Host: Tori Topic: Children’s Bureau: National Foster Care Month Guest: Bernadette Boylan Right Click Here To Download! Click Here To Listen! Bernadette Boylan, Foster Care and Adoption Supervisor at Children’s Bureau, joins Tori on-air to discuss the benefits of foster care, to answer some questions prospective resource parents may have, and to highlight May as National Foster Care Month. More on ...

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