• Foster Youth Support

    • Advokids: Provides educational information and resources through a legal educational website, a free telephone hotline, and regularly held legal trainings for attorneys and child welfare professionals. 
    • Alliance for Children's Rights: Offers free legal and social services for children and young adults impacted by foster care, training and education for those who work with or care for foster care youth, and advocacy for system-wide policy reform to change policies to improve children's lives.
    • Families Urgent Response System (FURS): A 24/7 hotline (chat, text, call) for foster youth and/or their caregivers, as well as school personnel who need support of any kind—day or night. In Sonoma County, FURS offers a trained social worker to respond in person, if needed. This is a new California statewide system. The goal is to provide support, reduce crises, and prevent placement failures. See the fliers at the bottom of the Cal-FURS page for information in other languages.
      • Hotline: 1(833)939-3877 
    • iFoster: Provides a free platform of resources for foster care youth, caregivers, and organization, include free virtual tutoring for foster youth in grades K-12 in any subject - for as long as necessary!
    • VOICES Sonoma: Provides young people aging out of foster care with family-like support.
      • (707)579-4327