Fostering Opportunities Scholarships(FOS) is an affiliate of the Ocean Beach Community Foundation. We are a 501(c) (3) non-profit foundation(ID#33-087-1198). Our goal is to expand the educational opportunities for foster students by providing mentors and financial support.
A Sense of Home (ASOH) creates first-ever homes for former foster youth who “age out” of the foster care system having never been adopted. ASOH’s village of volunteers comes in and supplies everything to create a home. Recipients pay it forward, working alongside a community of volunteers. ASOH began in Los Angeles and ready to replicate in other regions.
Located in Pasadena, Youth Moving On provides youth who were formerly in foster care and probation affordable quality housing and numerous support services to help them transition successfully to adulthood. The program also supports a Culinary Apprenticeship Program to help youth gain the knowledge and skills needed to obtain employment in the culinary field.
Pockets Change is changing the way finance is taught through hip hop pedagogy. Teaming up with communities across the country, our in-person workshops and online lessons go beyond the budget sheet to develop financial habits that align with students’ goals and values. Understanding our finances impacts more than our wallets, it’s critical to self-advocacy and promoting social justice.
Each year, Just in Time for Foster Youth mobilizes a caring community to help over 850 transition age youth (18-26) with resources and relationships to become capable, confident and connected. We meet emergency needs, fill gaps in knowledge and experience, enhance job skills, and build confidence, resilience and well-being through connections to over 600 volunteers and former foster youth staff.
The People Concern believes no one should have to live on the street or in a violent household. Our staff, volunteers and those we serve work together to address the effects of homelessness, poverty, mental and physical illness, abuse and addiction.
Journey House provides services exclusively to former foster youth in; Housing, Education, Employment, and Independent Living Counseling. Journey House is not a residential program, however, most youth continue as program participants because of the support and guidance that they receive as they transition out of foster care and beyond.
Our mission is to provide financial and mental health support to foster care youth in California.
When young adults age out of foster care, they lose all resources and support they had, leaving them to fend for themselves. Many lack the support, skills, and knowledge needed to transition into adulthood safely and successfully. David & Margaret is one of the leading regional providers of services and programs for young adults transitioning out of foster care and into independent living.
At Cake4Kids, we bake and deliver custom birthday cakes for foster children and at risk youth. We aim to raise their self-esteem with this seemingly simple gift on their special day. We currently support the following counties: Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, East Sacramento, San Diego. We deliver smiles one birthday cake at…