Q&A
Youth Leadership Council composition and addressing non-affirming foster parents
1:20:12
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Steven Gordon, Director of LGBTQ+ Equity Strategies at ACS, provides information about the Youth Leadership Council and explains the process for addressing non-affirming foster parents, particularly in relation to LGBTQ+ youth.
- The Youth Leadership Council includes both current and former foster care youth
- The council creates a sense of community among youth
- Council chairs are ACS staff members with lived experience in the foster care system
- If a foster parent doesn't allow a young person to wear clothing that corresponds with their gender, it's considered non-affirming
- In cases of non-affirming foster parents, ACS and the foster care agency would intervene to support the youth
Steven Gordon
1:20:12
Commissioner, very well.
1:20:13
Yep.
1:20:16
Also, do you wanna say our our youth leadership council is made up of both current foster care youth and former foster care youth, and it really is a mechanism of creating community as well as the chairs of our youth leadership council are 3 ACS staff who also have lived experience.
1:20:32
In regards to the clothing allowance, if a foster parent is not allowing a young person to wear the clothing that corresponds with their gender, That is an example of non non affirming parent, and ACS and the foster care agency would then step in and intercede.
Althea V. Stevens
1:20:51
Thank you.
1:20:52
Yeah.
1:20:52
Counsel and with Joseph?
