VOICES brings together more than 40 partnering agencies to provide housing, education, employment and wellness services to transitioning youth, ages 16-24. Created and run by former foster youth, VOICES is the first organization of its kind in the nation.
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With your support, we can help more emancipated foster youth access the resources they need to become healthy, successful, contributing adults.
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Making a Difference
Each year, we serve approximately 1,200 youth emancipating out of foster care, group homes, mental health, and probation. The services that we provide help these youth successfully transition into independent adulthood, while providing them with a loving community and place to call home. Find out more >>
VOICES News
As executive director of the Napa-based nonprofit On the Move, Leslie Medine is an authority figure who isn’t afraid of challenging the status quo.
Through On the Move and its affiliates — On the Verge, VOICES, the McPherson Neighborhood Initiative...
Daisyann Larkins was placed in the foster care system at 3 years old. For the next 15 years, she was shuffled through multiple foster homes and separated from her siblings. As she tells it, some foster parents were kind, others abusive.
“You...
[ Volunteers young and old worked together to upgrade the city's only service center for teens and young adults transitioning out of care programs. (I was one of the old ones.) ]
I'm typing this column with paint-covered fingers and a goofy grin on...
Jynessa Lazzaroni was 9 years old when her mother gave up on parenting and gave up all three of her children to foster care.
Lazzaroni is now a precociously wise and sympathetic woman of 20 who expends little energy dwelling on years of ricocheting...
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Hometown:
Great Neck, NY
Last great book I read:
Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Things I love...
Things I love:
I have many hobbies and interests, but the things i would say that i love are poetry...
My first concert:
First big concerts: Billy Joel, Loggins & Messina... can't remember which I...
