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We partner with youth, our Board of Directors, staff, community partners, and state agencies in developing our legislative agenda each year. In order to focus our advocacy efforts, Treehouse has set three high-level policy goals that align with our mission and programs:

1. Improve Educational Outcomes: We advance education and child welfare policies and investments that improve educational outcomes for youth in foster care, with a focus on eliminating racial disparities. This includes ensuring that every youth in foster care has a well-trained, supportive adult at home, at school, and in the foster care system to support their educational success.
2. Improve Transition-to-Adulthood Outcomes: We promote policy and investments that improve transition-to-adulthood planning and supports for youth and young adults who have experienced foster care, with a focus on eliminating racial disparities in outcomes. We believe that youth should be meaningfully involved in developing their own post–high school plans and should have access to higher education, career training, mental health, stable housing, life skills, financial literacy, and other needed supports.
3. Improve Equitable Access to Everyday Experiences, Activities, and Material Needs: We advance policies and investments that improve access to everyday experiences, activities, and access to materials that help youth develop interests, acquire skills, build positive relationships, and fit in with peers. We will prioritize policies and investments that allow youth to explore their racial and cultural identities.

Join our Advocacy Action Center to stay informed about relevant policies and discover easy ways to contact your legislators at key moments.

For more information about advocating for youth in foster care, contact us at takeaction@treehouseforkids.org.

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