Orangewood Children`s Foundation - Press Clippings May

Orangewood Children's Foundation - Press Clippings
May - June 2015
(as of 7/8/2015)
Table of Contents
Page #
Date
Publication
Title
Topic
Orangewood, PALS, 44 Women, & The Academy Fundraising Events
Community Fundraising Efforts in Support of Orangewood, etc.
2 May 14
Fountain Valley View
Stars and Stripes Fundraiser set in Mexico
3 May 14
Huntington Beach Wave
Stars and Stripes Fundraiser set in Mexico
Stars and Stripes fundraiser
Stars and Stripes fundraiser
Other Foundation Mentions
4 Apr 30
Costa Mesa Pilot
OCBJ
6 May 3
OCBJ
7 May 3
OCBJ
8 May 25
Orangewood volunteer
Orangewood AD
Orangewood logo
Orangewood Career advisory council member
Teachers Give and Give, Even in Retirement
Child Abuse Prevention Month AD
Child Abuse Prevention Month wrap
Eulynn Gargano, head of Test Prep and Tutoring
General Interest - Orangewood Home, Foster Care, Abuse, etc.
L.A. Times
LA on $221 a month
9 May 14
L.A. Times
Homeless among us
10 May 14
L.A. Times
Unlocked foster facility plan advances
11 May 14
L.A. Times
A Foster Child's lifetime sentence
12 May 19
14 Jun 4
The Orange County Register
He went to college and found home
Please call Sarah Bridger (714-619-0244) if you would like additional copies of any of the above-referenced articles.
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Foster youth and public assistance
Link btwn Foster Youth & homelessness
Facility for Foster youth
Life in foster care
The Guardian Scholar Program
Los Angeles, CA
(Los Angeles Co.)
Los Angeles Times
(Cir. D. 1,164,338)
(Cir. S. 1,531,527)
MAY 14 20\5
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{.A. on $221 a month
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It's long past time to increase the
county's miserly general-relief
payments, the lowest in the state.
I
N THE EARLY 1980s, as today, Los Ange­
les County residents who qualified for
no other fopn of public assistance were
given a few hundred dollars in monthly
last-resort payments known as gen­
eral relief. It was a lifeline to people down on
their luck, hoping to cobble together a few
dollars to put a roof over their heads, at least
for a portion of the month. The amount in
1982 was $221
More than 30 years later, that's still what
the county pays, despite the obvious many­
fold increases over the decades in the cost of
housing and other basic needs. Two general
relief recipients pooling their money still
can't afford a month in a typical L.A. apart­
ment.
And leaders wonder why Los Angeles
can't make headway against homelessness.
The orientation of county government
toward its moral duty to help the most desti­
tute of people has been grudging, to say the
least. The Legislature has often been its ally,
for example passing a law to permanently
hold the county's obligation to 65% of the
1994 poverty line, taking the payment from a
paltry $346 back down to $221 - miserly
/
even then.
Certain that general relief recipients
were using their monthly payments to fund
prince!y lives on the streets, county supervi­
sors embarked on one costly mission after
another to ferret out fraud and whittle the
general relief rolls. People who tried to make
their payments go further by becoming
roommates were disqualified.
The county, as has so often been the case,
got caught up in the minutiae of rules and
regulations while losing sight of the pro­
gram's goal, which is - or ought to be - to
aid those most in need and give them a way
to live without panhandling or engaging in
some other troubling behavior.
A year ago, the county agreed to settle a
lawsuit by correcting some of its most egre­
gious practices. Recipients can now pool
their money, for example. But Los Angeles
- the county with the costliest housing still pays the lowest general relief amount in
the state.
In the budget process now underway, the
Board of Supervisors is signaling a new will­
ingness to question old rules in order to
spend money more effectively and provide
better service to foster children, the men­
tally mmrd othersm need. lts"l:ttgh time to
boost payments to general relief recipients
as well. They are part of the web of need
that, unaddressed, puts more people on the
streets and makes the streets meaner, more
hopeless places to live.