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Children Deserve Success Podcast
Children Deserve Success Youth Resource Hub
Cradle to Career Roadmap: A Collective Approach to Achieve Our Countywide Vision
Foster Care Advisory Council Meeting Documents
Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program Resources
Homeless Education Program Resources
SBCSS Children Deserve Success Twitter
Children Deserve Success Programs
Child Welfare and Attendance (CWA)
CWA is a specialized student support service that covers compliance with compulsory education laws, student admission and enrollment procedures, student discipline procedures, transfers to alternative programs, and school climate and safety. CWA combines the knowledge and skill of counseling with knowledge of education and the law to resolve complicated situations involving school choice, student discipline, campus safety, and programs for high-risk youth.
Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program (FYSCP)
FYSCP provides support services to foster children who suffer the traumatic effects of displacement from family, school, and multiple placements in foster care. FYSCP has the ability and authority to ensure that health and school records are obtained to estabilsh appropriate placements and coordinate instructions, counseling, tutoring, mentoring, vocational training, emancipation services, training for independent living, and other related services. FYSCP increase the stability of placements for foster children and 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.
Homeless Education Program
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act) (42 U. S. C. § 11431-11435) is federal legislation that ensures the educational rights and protections of children and youths experiencing homelessness. It requires all local educational agencies (LEAs) to ensure that homeless students have access to the same free, appropriate public education, including public preschools, as provided to other children and youths. The McKinney-Vento Act defines LEAs as public school districts, direct-funded and locally funded charter schools, and county office of education. The McKinney-Vinto Act also authorizes the funding for the federal Education for Homeless Children and Youths Program.
Children Deserve Success Staff
Dr. Don English, Director, Children Deserve Success (CDS)
- Jasmine Douglass, Office Specialist III for CDS
Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program
Paul Durham, Program Coordinator, CDS
- Marion Carter, Project Analyst
- Sara Arispe, Foster Youth Services Program Specialist
- Ilinanoa "Lina" Suliafu, Foster Youth Services Program Specialist
- Stephanie Delgado, Foster Youth Services Specialist
- Stacy Diemert, Program Technician
Homeless Education Program
Tyrese M. Crawford, Program Coordinator, CDS
- Daisy Esparza, Homeless Education Program Specialist
- Shonie Perry, Homeless Education Program Specialist
- Stacy Diemert, Program Technician
- Daysi Silvas-Ramirez, Peer Support Associate
| File | File size |
|---|---|
 Educational Service Plan for Expelled and High-Risk Students | 841 kB |
| Expulsion Appeal Handbook | 283 kB |
| Inter-District Transfer Appeal Handbook | 348 kB |
| Manual de apelación de expulsión | 330 kB |