UCR Professor Receives Grant to Track Kids Leaving Foster Care

RIVERSIDE - A UC Riverside professor's research on what happens to foster kids after they're emancipated -- and whether a state law allowing them to remain in state care until they're 21 years old makes a difference -- will continue thanks to a $350,000 grant, it was announced today.

Psychology Professor Tuppet Yates has been researching the outcomes of foster children for more than three years and now plans a new phase of documentation focusing on the effects of Assembly Bill 12, legislation that took effect Jan. 1 and permits foster youths to continue receiving state assistance to age 21.

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