Fostering the Future
Back Web Only May 13, 2021 By Zahra Hamdani The coronavirus pandemic has been a challenging time for people who are in the best of situations, and for many foster youth the past year has exacerbated already tough circumstances. “Foster youth are not able to socialize, and they go back to emotional issues that they had already worked through,” says Katie DeMaio, manager of Women United, an action group out of United Way California Capital Region, which serves Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties. During the pandemic, Women United, which provides skills and funds for foster youth ages 14 to 18, set up an online
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