Youth in Los Angeles County foster care as young as 13 can open their own checking and savings accounts without an adult co-owner through the Youth Access Banking program.
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Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and celebrity advocate Paris Hilton, with support from Angelique Ashby (D-Sacramento) and Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Hayward), have introduced SB 1043, the Accountability in Children’s Treatment (ACT) measure.
David McKnight-Hillman was beaten while trying to break up a fight between foster teens at group home and later died. The incident marked one of hundreds of times police had been called to the facility, Wayfinder Family Services, in recent years.
A series of disturbing incidents at Circle of Friends – a short-term residential therapeutic treatment program in Escondido – have child welfare experts calling for local and state government officials to step in.