Alliance for Children's Rights

The Alliance for Children’s Rights is dedicated to promoting change that will make life better and more equitable for children and youth in foster care. Those directly impacted should have a strong voice in shaping the system designed to serve them. With this project, the Alliance will expand our current efforts to advance meaningful youth engagement to improve outcomes for those impacted by LA’s child welfare system. Better outcomes for our community’s foster youth will lead us to a better LA.

The Alliance for Children’s Rights is dedicated to promoting change that will make life better and more equitable for children and youth in foster care, including ensuring that trauma-sensitivity is integrated into learning environments for children recovering from neglect or abuse. With this project, the Alliance will focus on early intervention, prevention, and education efforts that can improve outcomes for those impacted by Los Angeles’s child welfare system. Better outcomes for our community’s foster youth will lead us to a better L.A.

In 2013, the Alliance for Children’s Rights and Children’s Law Center sought an engaging way to meaningfully educate and empower every transition-age youth, ages 16-24, or “TAY” in L.A. County. Together they created the Know Before You Go campaign (B4UGO), which features multimodal platforms to help TAY and organization’s serving them in the areas of work, school, life, health, money and more. This campaign was created for foster youth, informed by foster youth. That novel concept alone connects