California Youth Connection (CYC) is a youth-led organization based in Monterey Park, CA, dedicated to empowering young people impacted by the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Through community-led organizing, legislative advocacy, and policy change, CYC aims to develop and nurture leaders who can transform these systems and ensure that the needs of youth are met, enabling them to grow into healthy and vibrant adults.
With a focus on youth membership and chapter work, CYC provides a platform for young individuals aged 14-24 with lived experience in the foster care or juvenile justice systems to come together and engage in system change. Through their unique youth-adult partnership, CYC mobilizes system-impacted young people and adult supporters to advocate for issues in youth-serving systems, offering youth-centered trainings for child welfare professionals and opportunities for youth members to participate in statewide policy and legislative change.
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