CSULA MSW seeks Adults who were in LA County Foster care a minimum of 12 months during the years 1968-1998 to share their lived experiences and offer opinions on how current LA County foster children can be better served.
WERE YOU IN LA COUNTY FOSTER CARE FOR 12 MONTHS BETWEEN 1968-1998??
Voice your experience your opinions/ideas ---- BE THE VOICE OF CHANGE!!
I am a former foster child from that period and I am gathering information from as many who are willing to answer an hour to an hour and a half survey online--- as soon as possible.
In the next few days, my survey which was contributed to, co-ordinated with, and replicates one done by the Casey Foundation BUT is a group of children in LA County ONLY who were in foster care for at least 12 months during the years of 1968-1998 will be released by invitation only. It is an anonymous survey -- the group who email their agreement to participate will be "invited " by SurveyMonkey.com with a link to the questionnaire.
The information will come back to me but I will not know who answered/did not. Based on information from those who participate I will be able to look at long term effects of foster care in Los Angeles for the era -- and only from those responses will we glean -- for current and future children -- ideas on how/what we can do to IMPROVE foster care delivery. Please help me help foster children of Los Angeles -- through your participation in the survey.
Obviously-the more who participate, the more trusted the date collected will be --- please email me if you were a foster child in LA County for 12 months between 1968 and 1998 and are interested in participating..... only those who respond to this email may be included for the survey distribution, please share my email address to your siblings and any other foster children from the era....
California is very important with regard to Child Welfare -- it has had nearly half of the foster children in the US and until recently, received only about a quarter of the funding -- LA County serves a huge portion of the California foster child population -- as people who lived it -- what we have to say about Child Welfare needs to be heard!.
Roberta Javier
MSW Candidate 2007
huevas@aol.com