First Pilot: First Star UCLA Summer Guardian Academy: Completed, Summer 2011 Foster youth are often denied access to adequate educational and residential programs that meet their unique needs within a supportive environment. The damaging effects of growing up in foster care without those needs met are staggering: high rates of young parenthood, unemployment, homelessness, inadequate [...]
From Place to Place is a feature documentary that follows modern day heroes Mandy and Raif as they age out of foster care and change the system that raised them.
First Star works to improve foster care and other systems that help neglected or abused children.
The Children's Advocacy Institute (CAI) at the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law and First Star released a report entitled, "The Fleecing of Foster Children; How We Confiscate Their Assets and Undermine Their Financial Security," on March 16, 2011 in Washington, D.C. Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-Rhode Island) and Pete Stark (D-California) were on [...]
14 year-old Heather talks about the legal rights of children.