DID YOU KNOW????

·          There are nearly 40,000 foster youth living under the auspices of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) —

·          This year alone 1,400 young adults will have to leave the support of the foster care system forever with little or no financial support and/or life skills

·         Now they are vulnerable and exposed to committing theft, prostitution and drug abuse for survival.

·          Together we will help reduce the plight of homelessness, incarceration, Gangs, alcoholism and drug addiction against our at risk youth.

Main issues are:

Not having social security cards, birth certificates, immunization/medical documentation, which renders them completely unidentifiable. There are times when the teenagers are unaware of their own birth dates. This often happens when the child is continuously moved from home to home and information was never transferred or is lost.

We have seized the benefits of technology to gather the vital life documents for youth, called the Virtual Assisted Living and Education Program, The VALE Program.  Youth will have access to a secure web site  www.myLAspace.org  that has bridged the gap between our youth and the community by…….

1.         Providing access to online data storage to provide a secure portal to important personal documents for youth

2.      Introduce foster youth to the computer technology and e-educational resources available via the internet, to achieve success in today’s society; and

          Living Advantage.