Covenant Ride for Hope Motorcycle Run
Benefitting Royal
Family Kids' Camp & Covenant
Mentoring
We need sponsors, vendors
and riders!
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Upcoming Events
April 29th -
FREE
Information Meeting on foster parenting, mentoring and
the other services provided by CCSI. For more
information or to RSVP call John
May 3rd - Motorcycle Ride
Benefitting Royal Family Kids' Camp and Covenant. All
proceeds from the Ride will be split between Royal Family Kids'
Camp, Covenant Mentoring, and Covenant CARENET. If you
would like to get involved or for more information contact
Jessica
May13th -
FREE
Information Meeting on foster parenting, mentoring and
the other services provided by CCSI. For more
information or to RSVP call John
Mentor Training on everything from how to build a rapport with your
mentee to how to maneuver them through life's most difficult
challenges. For more information or to schedule your
training call Jessica
Royal Family Kids' Camp 2008
(June 8-13th)
is quickly approaching. Call Kim to find out how you
can get involved!
For information on any of the
events listed above please contact our office at 661/326-8304
News
Covenant Press Releases
Randy Speaking at RFKC Fundraiser in
Ventura County -
view flyer
Fostering Hope Seminar
Have a Heart Month
Randy to Speak
at Men's Breakfast
Immediate Need for Volunteers to Serve as Mentors
Covenant Receives $4000 Grant
Local
Foster Care News
Immediate Need for Volunteer Mentors
bakersfield.com - January 2008
Covenant Community Services has an immediate need for volunteers
who are willing to mentor former foster youth ages 17-21. The
youth are part of Covenant's...
Covenant Community Services Receives $5000 Grant
bakersfield.com - September 2007
Through Bank of the West's Charitable Contributions Program,
Covenant obtained a $5000 operating expense grant in support of
Building Blocks...
National Foster
Care, Family & Emancipated Youth News
"Death by Chocolate" Brings Life to Foster
Kids' Camp
Ventura County Star - April
2008
Once again, Royal Family
Kids' Camps will be hosting an amazing fundraiser! Although
they've sold tamales by the hundreds in years past, this year's
event is called "Death by Chocolate."
Oxnard PD: Student Dies After Classroom
Shooting
MSNBC - February 2008
Oxnard police said Wednesday that a
15-year-old boy who was shot in the head Tuesday at E.O. Green
Junior High School in Oxnard has died...
Powerful CASA video
Don't cut foster care
San Bernardino County Sun -
February 2008
Last
October, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stated: "Every child
deserves to grow up in a safe, stable and permanent home,
surrounded by the nurturing influence of family and friends. It
is California's goal to ensure that this happens for all our
young people and especially those in foster care."...
Wanted: Good homes for older kids
USA Today - January 2008
Michael, 15, is a quiet boy who enjoys board games. He
says ideally he would like a mother, father and siblings...
Child Abuse and Neglect Cost Nation Over
$100 Billion Per Year
Earthtime.org - January 2008
An economic impact analysis released today
estimates the costs of child abuse and neglect to society were
nearly $104 billion last year...
Sade's story: An update
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
I thought that now, I'm out of [foster
care] and I'm not a kid anymore, so I should be
past those feelings. I guess I was lying to myself.
...
More
support needed past age 18 for youths too old for
foster care
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Between 60 to 80 teenagers grow out of the state
foster care
system annually. There is extended support and mentoring
available already, but the outlook
...
Bill aims to ease aging transition out of
foster care
The Post Online - Athens,OH,USA
The
Foster Care
Continuing Opportunities Act, which was introduced in May by
California Sen. Barbara Boxer and is still being considered
in committee, ...
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A better send-off for
foster care kids
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
In that context, it's hard to imagine the utter aloneness of
the 24000 teenagers who age out of the
foster care
system each year with nowhere to go and no
...
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Operation Backpack:
Foster Kids in the Independent Living Program
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
You can drop off backpacks and gift cards for children in
foster care
Saturday, September 1, from 8 am - 1 pm at local Kmart
stores. ...
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