Foster Youth and Homeless Youth Services
The Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program (FYSCP) and Homeless Youth Education Program (HYEP) provides support services to foster children and homeless youth who suffer the traumatic effects of displacement from family and schools and multiple placements in foster care or unstable housing. FYSCP has the ability and authority to ensure that health and school records are obtained to establish appropriate placements and to coordinate instruction, counseling, tutoring, mentoring, vocational training, emancipation services, training for independent living, and other related services. The FYSCP and HYEP increases the stability of placements for foster children and homeless youth. These services are designed to improve the children’s educational performance and personal achievement, directly benefiting them as well as providing long-range cost savings to the state.
Foster/Homeless Services Program also provides assistance to Tuolumne County School Districts to support school stability, and college and career readiness for foster and homeless students in our county. We work closely with community agencies including the Tuolumne County Department of Social Services, Probation, SELPA, Columbia College, Independent Living Program, Tuolumne County Mental Health, VMRC, Tuolumne County Public Health, Student Support Services Council, and Tuolumne County Child Welfare Services.
The FYSCP is guided by AB490 & McKinney-Vento which ensures that:
- Agencies must work together to serve the educational needs of students in foster care/homeless youth.
- Students in foster care/homeless youth must have access to the same academic resources, services, extracurricular, and enrichment activities that are available.
- The placing agency must promote educational stability.
HOMELESS
Who Counts as a “Homeless” Student?
The Federal Government’s legal definition of homelessness is based upon the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act as anyone who:
- Lacks a regular, fixed and adequate nighttime residence
- Is sharing housing due to economic struggles
- Is living in a public place not designed for sleeping or permanent residence (cars, parks, shelter or motel)
- Is an unaccompanied youth
- Is a youth awaiting foster care placement
- Is a migrant youth who qualifies under any of the above
Youth Have Rights to:
- Enroll in school without proper documentation/immunization records
- Attend classes while educational records are being located and transferred
- Remain in their school of origin
- Enroll in school without giving a permanent address
- Receive transportation to and from school
Homeless Youth Ed Right’s
FOSTER
Assembly Bill 490—Ensures that Foster Youth have the following:
- Access to the same educational opportunities and resources as other students
- Increased stability of school placements
- Immediate enrollment even when records are not available
- Timely transfer of student records
- Calculation of full or partial credit for coursework by schools the student has attended
- Education placement decisions that are determined by the youth’s best interest
Name | Organization | Position | |
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Bob White | ATCAA | Director | |
Diana Turner | Belleview Elementary District | Liaison/CBO | |
Lizzie Banks | Big Oak Flat District | District Liaison | |
Michelle Clark | Child Welfare Services | CWS Program Manager | |
Cori Allen | Child Welfare Services | Deputy Director | |
Stephanie Beaver | Columbia College | Foster Youth | |
Lauretta Carr | Columbia Elementary School District | Liaison | |
Terri Bell | Curtis Creek Elementary District | Liaison/Superintendent | |
Kelsey Stone | TCSOS/CWS | Foster Youth Manager | |
Jeanne Harvey | Foster Family Agency/Environmental Alt. | Social Worker | |
Ron Hamilton | Gold Rush Charter School | District Liaison | |
Cary Guland | Headstart | Director | |
Natalie Gray | ICES | FSS | |
Mark Dyken | Jamestown Family Resources Center District Liaison & TCSOS | Liaison | |
Diana Carpenter | Me Wuk Tribal Social Services | Social Worker | |
Lindsay and Yvonne | MotherLode Job Training | Job Developers | |
John Baker | Sonora Elementary District | Liaison/Principal | |
Sherryl Godfrey | Sonora/Cassina/Ted Bird High Schools District | Liaison | |
Laura Nelson | Soulsbyville School District | Liaison | |
Steve Sweitzer | Summerville High School District | Liaison | |
Cathy Parker | TCSOS | Superintendent | |
Colleen Whitlock | TCSOS | Foster Youth Coordinator | |
Kylee Luchetti | TCSOS | Special Ed. Director/District Liaison | |
Marian Bacis | Tuolumne Co. Social Services | Social Worker | |
Emily Leaird | Tuolumne Co. Social Services | Social Worker | |
Denise Combs | Tuolumne County Behavioral Health/CWS | Mental Health Clinician | |
Linda Downey | Tuolumne County Probation | Chief Probation Officer | |
Joelle Kewish | Tuolumne County Probation | Juvenile Division Manager | |
Gabe Wingo | Twain Harte School District | Liaison/Principal | |
Cyndi Simonson | TCSOS | TCSOS Board Member | |
Mitch Heldstab | Summerville Elementary School | Principal/Liaison | |
Donita Osborue | Salvation Army | Coordinator | |
Michelle Phillips | TC Social Services | Social Worker | |
Charlene Brown | Summerville Elementry | FY liaison |
School | Phone | Website | Address | FY Liaison | |
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Belleview | 209-586-5510 | http://mybelleview.org/ | 22736 Kewin Mill Road Sonora, CA 95370 |
Diana Turner | |
Big Oak Flat | 209-962-5765 | www.bofg.org | Post Office Box 1397 Groveland, CA 95321 |
Wynette Hilton | |
Columbia Union School District | 209-532-0202 | http://www.cusd49.com/ | 22540 Parrots Ferry Road Columbia, CA 95310 |
Lauretta Carr | |
Curtis Creek School District | 209-533-1083 | http://www.curtiscreekschool.com/ | 18755 Standard Road Sonora, CA 95370 |
Terri Bell | |
Gold Rush Charter School | 209-532-9781 | http://www.goldrushcs.org/ | 16330 Hidden Valley Road Sonora, CA 95370 |
Kristen Tidwell | |
Jamestown School District | 209-984-4058 | http://www.jamestown.k12.ca.us/ | 18299 Fifth Avenue Jamestown, CA 95327 |
Mark Dyken | |
Sonora School District | 209-532-5491 | http://www.ses.k12.ca.us/ | 830 Greenly Road Sonora, CA 95370 |
Tracy Webster | |
Sonora Union High School District | 203-533-8510 | http://sonorahs.k12.ca.us/ | 430 North Washington Street Sonora, CA 95370 |
Lance Marrow | |
Soulsbyville School | 209-562-1419 | http://www.soulsbyvilleschool.com/ | 20300 Soulsbyville Road Soulsbyville, CA 95372 |
Laura Nelson | |
Summerville School District | 209-928-4291 | http://www.sumel.k12.ca.us/ | 18451 Carter Street Tuolumne, CA 95379 |
Charlene Brown | |
Summerville Union High School District | 209-928-3498 | https://www.summbears.k12.ca.us/ | 17555 Tuolumne Road Tuolumne, CA 95379 |
Steve Sweitzer | |
TCSOS Alternative Education | 209-536-2068 | https://www.tcsos.com/ | 175 Fairview Lane Sonora, CA 95379 |
Kelsey Stone | |
TCSOS SELPA | 209-536-2055 | https://www.tcsos.com/ | 175 Fairview Lane Sonora, CA 95379 |
Kylee Luchetti | |
Twain Harte Union School District | 209-586-3772 | http://www.thsd.k12.ca.us/ | 18815 Manzanita Drive Twain Harte, CA 95383 |
Gabe Wingo |