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YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network

Thousands of migrant children are exploited as laborers every day. Read more about how to legally help them get out of horrific, dangerous working conditions here: https://ct.moreover.com/?a=52039173737&p=14e&u1=ND&u2=up-urn%3Auser%3APA186960098&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&v=1&x=9oRLmLzycdb9ghrJ6YBe6w

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YATOM is spotlighting School on Wheels! School on Wheels supports over 2,000 unhoused students per year, filling in education gaps and changing students' lives forever!

Read more here: https://schoolonwheels.org/who-is-funding-efforts-to-support-the-nations-1-million-homeless-students/

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Who Is Funding Efforts to Support the Nation’s 1 Million Homeless Students? - School on Wheels

As kids across the country are settling into the new school year, having worked through the usual mix of nerves andexcitement, many of them are still struggling with the relentless challenges that come with being a student who is alsohomeless. Just ask 24-year-old Chynna Lloyd of Los Angeles, who recalls being a homeless fifth grader and havingalready bounced around to nine different schools, leaving her with little confidence and huge gaps in her education.That was the year she first connected to a tutor named Katie at the nonprofit School on Wheels. The help she received,she says, was life changing.

School on Wheels

Biden-Harris Administration Announces More than $200 Million in Grants to Support Youth Mental Health!

President Biden is making unprecedented investments to tackle the mental health crisis and transform how mental health is understood, accessed, treated, and integrated in and out of health care settings."

Read more here: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/09/25/biden-harris-administration-announces-more-than-200-million-support-youth-mental-health.html

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $200 Million To Support Youth Mental Health

$200 Million for youth mental health

HHS.gov

To Be Ripped Away From Your Family: Care for Foster Children

Read more from expert Monique B. Mitchell here: https://imprintnews.org/foster-care/loss-grief-relational-connection-youth-foster-careamily/244625?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Loss, Grief and Relational Connection for Youth in Foster Care

Dr. Monique Mitchell describes the harms and grief described to her by youth who experience foster care and family separation.

The Imprint
Children in fostercare need more than higher education! The tendency to believe that college can make up for other societal inequalities is widespread. But college is not magic. Universities cannot make up for 13 years of bad schools or incompetent teachers or parents who don't even bother sending their kids to school on a regular basis.
Read more here: https://www.deseret.com/2023/9/25/23883078/foster-care-aging-out-college-tuition?fbclid=IwAR0TM0plXCOnlt2rQ6nGzgkQtT6XlhegI0txzRdpMcMEPFujAkZ8MeIIcjw
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What happens to kids who age out of foster care? | Opinion

Every year, about 20,000 kids age out of foster care. Offering to send them to college is not a magic solution

Deseret News
Child Care at a Crossroads: Finding child care is already difficult and expensive — and it’s about to get worse

You would think with all the money parents have to pay for child care — it can easily add up to or even surpass the cost of a monthly mortgage payment — that the child care industry would be a lucrative career field for the people who work in it.

WTOP News

Chag Sameach from YATOM! This weekend, we’ll be celebrating Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, and reconnecting with nature. This Sukkot, please support YATOM in spreading some of the happiness of the holiday to children in need. You can support us at the link in our bio! Thank you and Chag Sameach from our team at YATOM!

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Yom Kippur has just passed and this year we ask you to join us in taking care of vulnerable children nationwide by donating at the link in our bio. You can find more about our programs and work on our website. Thank you and from our team at YATOM, we wish you a Gmar Chatima Tova and a safe and healthy new year!

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