Two of Santa Clarita’s state legislators are teaming up for a town hall Thursday, March 30, they announced this week.

Assemblyman Dante Acosta and Senator Scott Wilk are welcoming constituents to a community forum at Santa Clarita City Hall from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Acosta announced the town hall during a live interview Friday on KHTS AM-1220, where he discussed a new piece of legislation he’s introducing called AB 754.

AB 754 would create the California Foster Youth Enrichment Grant Program to provide grants to help foster youth participate in activities that enhance their skills, abilities, self-esteem and overall well-being.

During the interview, Acosta also called on his constituents who supported giving help to foster youth to contact friends and families in other districts, and encourage them to have their legislators support the bill.

The idea is to hear from voters in the 38th Assembly District and the 17th Senate District in the state Legislature, as well as update constituents about what’s going on in Sacramento, Wilk said Monday.

“Having a dialogue is the best way to hear from the grassroots,” Wilk said. “This spring, I’ll be holding a series of town halls and community coffees to ensure that I’m listening to the people.”

In addition to organizing the KHTS Sacramento Road Trip, which gives Santa Clarita Valley residents a unique opportunity to meet and greet officials addressing local issues at the state level, Wilk also currently is working on SB 283, to help victims of traumatic brain injuries.

The measure would measure would allow young Californians who have suffered a traumatic brain injury between age 18 and 22, to access regional center disability services.

This measure will bring California into conformance with the federal threshold and that of 38 other states. Currently these services are unavailable in California if a developmental disability, such as traumatic brain injury, occurs after the age of 18.

The need for SB 283 came to Senator Wilk’s attention from a meeting he had with James O’Hara of Castaic, a constituent whose son suffered a severe injury to his brain in a devastating car accident shortly after his 18th birthday, which made him ineligible for even the basic rehabilitation therapy services needed to restore normal functioning such as speech, walking, and self-care.

Check-in/registration is expected to being at 5:30 p.m., according to officials.