To view this article on BC Government News visit:https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016CFD0047-002023?WT.cg_n=HootSuiteMore youth in care will benefit from extended supports, including life skills programs that focus on financial planning, healthy living and employability, thanks to changes to the Agreements with Young Adults (AYA) program.Previously, AYA was available for former youth in care from their 19th birthday to their [...]

November 15, 2016 I am pleased that the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth has today appointed an Acting Representative for Children and Youth, effective Nov. 27, 2016. To read Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond's full statement regarding the appointed Acting Representative visit: https://goo.gl/5gHeHd

Meet Raven, who at 19 years of age ‘aged out’ of ministry care, having been in more than 20 foster homes since the age of four. “It’s a difficult process to age out, to go from being supported with food and shelter and then go to having nothing. It’s really scary, so the extra [...]

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