2024-2025 NY State Budget and Legislative Action Agenda – Our Collective Demands for Young People
YouthNPower is an intergenerational collaboration determined to reimagine the child welfare system – to transform care for young people and families in crisis – by building knowledge and power with youth most impacted while working within a broader community of young people, advocates and organizers through collective research, action, and direct economic support. YouthNPower brings together a range of expertise, including lived experience in the child welfare system, policy advocacy, research, storytelling and organizing.
Bold action is required if our system of care for youth and families in crisis were to be truly transformed. We call for urgent attention to the following critical domains for policy-making and collective action that recognize the need for concrete support and resources across young people’s lives as they navigate their emerging adulthood after foster care.
