Step Up For Kin

The Alliance for Children's Rights protects the rights of impoverished and abused children and youth so that they have safe, stable homes, healthcare and the education they need to thrive. Click here.

The Alliance of Relative Caregivers provides advocacy services, resources, information and referrals, education, crisis intervention, and assists with basic and mental health needs for all relative caregivers throughout Los Angeles County. Click here.

Bay Area Legal Aid provides meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance regardless of a client's location, language or disability. Click here.

California Alliance of Caregivers (CAC) represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers (resource families) to promote the best interests of children in foster care. Click here.

California CASA Association strengthens California's network of local CASA programs and advocate for abused and neglected children. Click here.

The California Community Colleges Foster & Kinship Care Education Program provides funding to the community colleges for the provision of education and training to potential and existing foster parents. Click here.

California Youth Connection is a youth-led organization that develops leaders who empower each other and their communities to transform the foster care system through legislative, policy and practice change. Click here.

Child's Best Interest facilitates the best possible outcome for a child and the department, as quickly as possible, and to provide a safe and neutral platform where every member of the team feels empowered to voice their needs and concerns during such a tumultuous time. Click here.

Children Now takes a whole-child approach, covering the full-range of key children's issues, from prenatal through age 26, including early childhood development, education, children's health, childhood trauma and resilience, foster care, and youth justice. Click here.

Children's Law Center of California represents children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned that come under the protection of the Los Angeles, Sacramento, or Placer County Juvenile Dependency Court systems. Click here.

The East Bay Children's Law Offices provides legal representation to children and youth who are the subject of abuse and neglect proceedings, delinquency proceedings and probate guardianship proceedings in Alameda County Courts. Click here.

John Burton Advocates for Youth works to improve the quality of life for California's foster, former foster, and homeless youth. Click here.

Kinship Support Services YMCA of San Diego provides support to kinship caregivers, relatives who are raising the child of another family member. Click here.

The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley uses innovative legal advocacy as a tool for social change. Click here.

Lilliput Families provide a strong foundation for children & their families, & ensure that children who enter the foster care system are placed with lifelong families as quickly as possible. Click here.

Lincoln provides preventative, individualized and comprehensive support services with a focus on three core areas that disrupt cycles of poverty and trauma: education, family and well-being. Click here.

Public Counsel is the nation's largest not-for-profit law firm specializing in delivering pro bono legal services. Click here.

Solano County Resource Family Association supports Resource Families (Foster, Adoptive & Relative) in Solano County. Click here.

The Woodland Community College Foster and Kinship Care Education program serves Yolo County foster parents, kinship/relative care providers, and individuals interested in becoming foster parents or in adopting a child. Click here.