PARTICIPATING COLLIGES (CONTINUED) Mt. San Jacinto College Napa Valley College Oxnard College Pasadena City College College of the Redwoods Rio Hondo College Riverside Community College Saddelback College San Bernardino College City College of San Francisco San Joaquin Delta College Santa Barbara City College Santa Rosa Junior College College of the Sequoias Shasta College Sierra College College of the Siskiyous For more information on the Foster and Kinship Care Education Solano Community College Program, contact your local participating college, or The Chancellor’s Office Foster and Kinship Care Education Unit at 916.323.5275. Taft College The State Foster and Kinship Care Education Program is a sub-unit CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES Ventura College of the Career; Child and Community Development Unit within Victor Valley College the Student Services and Special Programs Owision, FO~QS~ Y’RS’èF~kM West Los Nlgeles College California Community Colleges, Chancellor’s Office West Valley College “tile 1102 Q Street Sacramento, California 95814 or visit our v’,ebsite: ~ ~ know the more they grow” Yuba College - Marysville ~w~w.cccco.eduIdMsions/ss/fostercare/foster_child.htm Yuba College - Woodland INTRODUCTION WHO WE SERVE AND SERVICES PARTICIPATING COLLIGES The California Community College Foster and Kinship PROVIDED Allan Hancock College Care Education (FKCE) program was first established in Last year the FKCE program served over 20,000 foster Anietcan River College 1984, with the passage of Senate Bill 2003 (Royce, parents, kinship (relative) care providers, social services Antelope Valley College Statues of 1984, Chapter 1597), Iciown as the Foster staff and others whom received education and training Bakersfield College Children and Parent Training Act. through the community college FKCE programs. Butte College Cabff Ic College Some of the core types of workshop and class topics The State Chancellors Office and a system of 67 local CaPiada College provided include: community colleges implement the Foster and Kinship College of the Canyons Care Education Program each year, in collaboration with Cenitos College Parenting Skills - Child Development, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), a Behavior Management Chabot College State Advisory Committee, local county departments of Substance abuse or exposure Citrns College (Consortium) social services (DSS), as well as foster parent and Columbia College Working wth the system - Self-help skills for care kinship (relative) care provider associations. The local providers, working with the local agency Compton College colleges provide education and training opportunities to Contra Costa College Permanency planning - reunification/emancipation/ foster parents and kinship/relative care providers to adoptiorVguardianship Cosumnes River College/El Dorado Center assist them in meeting the special needs of the foster Self esteem Cuesta College children in their care. Kinship care orientation and training Cypress College Cultural diversity Diablo Valley College Training foster parent & kinship (relative) care East Los Angeles College OUR MISSION providers to be trainers El Camino College Prevention of teenage pregnancy Evergreen Valley College The mission of the Foster and Kinship Care Education Fresno City College * Classes are customized to meet needs of foster parent and Program is to provide quality education and support Grossmont College kinship (relative) caregiver populations. opportunities to caregivers of children and youth in out- Hartnell College of-home care, so that these providers may meet the Impetal Valley College foster childrens’ educational, emotional, behavioral and OUR COMMITMENT Lake Tahoe Community College developmental needs. The Foster and Kinship Care Education program is Las Positas College committed to providing high quality education and training Lessen College at no cost to foster parents and kinship (relative) care Long Beach City College providers since 1984. The FKCE program plays a vital Los Angeles City College ROLl OF COMMUNITY role in providing foster parents and relative/kinship Los Angeles Harbor College COLlEGES caregivers with the training and education that will help Los Angeles Mission College them meet the multifaceted and often complex needs of Los Angeles Pierce College The colleges provide high quality workshops and foster children in their care. Our commitment remains Los Angeles Southwest College classes to meet the needs of local foster parents and strong in continuing to collaborate with key foster care Los Angeles Trade Tech College kinship care providers in their counties. The colleges system stakeholders, such as CDSS, local county DSS, Los Medanos College offer a wide array of class topics to meet the “pre-service” Probation and other organizations to best meet the needs College of Mann and “in-service/on-going” training requirements for foster of California’s foster parents/kinship (relative) care Mendocino College parents and kinship (relative) care providers, consistent providers and their children. Merced College with state laws: AB 3062, Statutes of 1996, SB 916, Merritt College Following is a list of the 67 participating Califomia Statutes of 1997, AB 2307, Statutes of 2000; and local Modesto Junior College community colleges who provide quality education county policies. Moorpark College and training opportunities to eligible caregivers. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOSTEP~INSHIP CARE EDUCATION PROGRAM