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#ReleaseTheFunds

The Department of Child Safety has almost $10.5M for pandemic relief for older and former foster youth. But, to date, DCS has distributed just $500,000 to young people.

Fostering Advocates Arizona (FAAZ), a group of policy advocates with lived experience in foster care is calling on DCS to use the funds to provide every young person who aged out of foster care with a $500 no-strings-attached payment. Stimulus checks are the fastest and fairest way to get the funds to foster youth who need help now to pay for rent, groceries, and other necessities.

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Dear Governor Ducey and Director Faust:

We join Fostering Advocates Arizona in urging you to use the additional $10.5M in federal Chafee funds allocated to Arizona to provide direct financial support to young people in and from foster care, including issuing a $500 check to every eligible young person who has aged out of foster care. Please release the funds and help foster youth make it through the pandemic.

#ReleaseTheFunds

Thank You!