The grant will be used to offer a continuum of care to local youths living in foster care seeking and moving into permanent homes.
FOLSOM, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SAFE Credit Union is committing $10,000 to help area children and teens living in foster care with mental health services provided by Stanford Sierra Youth & Families in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, and Yolo counties.
The grant will be used to offer a continuum of care to local youths living in foster care seeking and moving into permanent homes.
"Our goal is to help get foster youth into permanent and loving homes, and to support them along the way as well as after as they have settled into their new lives," says Laura Heintz, chief executive officer of Stanford Sierra Youth & Families. "This grant from SAFE Credit Union will help us meet their emotional needs during this process."
Through their programs in 2021, Stanford Sierra Youth & Families helped nearly 6,000 youths and family members in Northern California.
"We are so humbled to provide funding to help foster youth in our surrounding communities feel secure in finding a new home," says SAFE Community Impact Manager Amanda Merz. "The work done by Stanford Sierra Youth & Families is unprecedented."
Heintz says foster youths who join permanent families are much more likely to graduate from high school and earn a college degree.
"As young adults, foster youth who joined permanent families earn about three times as much as their peers in foster care who age out of the system without a family," Heintz says. "These positive outcomes greatly improve the lives of the youths themselves, and they benefit the neighborhoods they live in too—through a broader tax base, less dependence on public assistance, and lower incidences of crime and substance abuse. That benefits everyone."
SAFE annually awards $120,000 in grants in four phases focusing on its three pillars of philanthropy: veterans, healthcare, and education.
About SAFE
SAFE Credit Union is a leading financial institution in Northern California with over $4.5 billion in assets and more than 242,000 members. SAFE is a not-for-profit, state-chartered credit union with membership open to businesses and individuals living or working in Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, Sutter, Butte, Nevada, Solano, San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Yuba, Amador, and Alameda counties. Insured by NCUA. http://www.safecu.org.
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