Strengthen mental health services

• Provide trauma-informed therapy

• Create mobile crisis teams

• Create peer support groups

• Shorten wait times for psychiatric care

Support caseworkers

• Mandate caseload limits

• Reduce paperwork burden

• Increase caseworker salary

• Reduce burnout through supervision and support

• Extend the age kids age out of care to 26

• Create employment programs for youth

• Establish emergency funds for youth

• Guarantee housing support for when youth leave foster care

Improve outcomes for older youth

These reforms won't happen without sustained advocacy and political courage. The foster care system has been broken for decades because it affects our most powerless community members—children without political influence, often from marginalized communities, who can't vote or donate to campaigns.

I'm committed to being their voice in the legislature, fighting every day for the funding, policies, and systemic changes that will transform foster care.