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| The Empowerment Association
provides information about available resources and
services (community, health and social services,
education, employment, housing, childcare, etc.).
Empowerment Association, foster
parents and partnering agencies collaborate to enhance
the following services:
- Mentoring
- Group Mentoring/Activities
- Peer to Peer Mentoring
- Life Skills
- Systems Navigation/Self Advocacy
- Job Skills
- Customer Service Skills
- Computer Technology
- Tutoring
- College Preparation
- Counseling
- Entrepreneurial Training
- Transitional Services, Vocational Training and
Training for independent Living
Services are tailored for
each individual. Our goal is to help foster youth to
become self-sufficient, productive, self advocating and
contributing members of society.
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Help Reduce the High School Drop Out Rate
Our goal and focus for 2012 is to Advocate Outreach Program and avenues to reduce the high school drop out rate in our community. |
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| The Empowerment Association was created in 1995 by
professional and non-professional women. The Empowerment
Association's mission is to enhance and empower foster youth
through mentoring, computer technology, education and
collaboration.
In 2006, the Empowerment Association
responded to an urgent need, identified through research,
the news media and through contact with older foster youth.
These older youth need support in acquiring the skills
needed for self sufficiency as they age out of the foster
care system at age 18.
Our target population is foster youth ages 16-21 living
in southeastern San Diego and City Heights. Children's
Services report that there are 7,000 children in foster care
in San Diego; 1,800 are between the ages of 16-21. Youth age
out of the system at age 18 and cannot receive any financial
assistance other than Medi-Cal benefits that continue until
age 21. |
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Important Facts
Foster youth need
consistent, stable adult role models to guide them to a
successful life path.
About
40% of foster youth in our nation become homeless within
12 months after reaching their 18th birthday.
More
than 2 million children have a parent in prison.
Approximately
60% of foster care girls become pregnant within four
years of leaving the system.
A
typical foster child in San Diego County will live in an
average of 10 different foster homes and in some cases
be placed in as many as 25 homes by the time they reach
18.
Foster
youth in San Diego attend an average of five to six high
schools during their teenage years.
Last
year, 16.6 million Americans had substance abuse
problems (what happened to their children?).
Source:
Child Abuse Prevention Foundation,
San Diego |
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