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The Do Good Podcast

The Do Good Podcast interviews leading social impact professionals to analyze some of the most pressing public policy challenges we face as a society. Hosted by Marc Berkman, an attorney and former senior Congressional advisor, and Dr. Shlomy Kattan, a non-profit executive and education expert, the Do Good Podcast focuses on professional do-gooders, the people on the ground working day-in and day-out to solve a specific policy problem, and gives them a platform to share their expertise. We have a no-fluff, no-spin policy. We dive deep to understand the policy nuances and tradeoffs inherent in the tough challenges we face today, and to examine why these problems persist.

Categories: Government & Organizations

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In this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Marc and Shlomy talk to Jesse Hahnel about foster youth.

Jesse Hahnel is the Executive Director of the National Center for Youth Law, commonly referred to as NCYL, and he is the former Director of NCYL’s Foster Youth Education Initiative (FosterEd). A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Jesse has been an attorney at NCYL for nearly nine years. Seven years ago he founded FosterEd, an innovative, award winning, system-reform initiative of NCYL that improves educational outcomes of foster children.

The National Center for Youth Law is a public interest law firm that has been in existence for over four decades. Its mission is to improve the lives of children and youth living in poverty. It is a system transformation organization which means that it works to improve and support the systems that should be serving vulnerable youth.

Foster youth in the US have worse outcomes than other at-risk youth:

There are about 415,000 foster youth in the US;
There are about 28,000 foster youth in Los Angeles County;
Only 58% of foster youth graduate from high school, and only 3% graduate from college;
Fifty percent of the youth that age out of foster care end up either homeless or incarcerated.

Listen to Jesse discuss with us the work that he and the National Center for Youth Law are doing to help foster youth. Click here for full show notes.

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