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2022 PPG COMMUNITY AGENDA
The Forgotten Population: Foster Care Youth, Young Adults, and Alumni
The City of Buffalo should ensure special access to city services for young people who recently graduated from foster care. Young adults who have aged out of the foster care system are among the most underserved and underrepresented populations in our city. Once they transition out of the County foster care system, the City could offer specialized support through its youth services department, housing support services and funding, and employment programs, for example. This will help foster care alumni to receive the resources, skills training, and assistance that they need to live full, sustainable, and successful lives.
Leading partners: Fostering Greatness, Independent Contractors Guild of WNY (ICG), Craft Technical Institute (CTI), Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), Child and Family Services, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), CAI and HOPE Buffalo
A foster care founder speaks on where $330 million ARP funds should go
"Before COVID happened there was a housing issue for foster care youth and alumni so some of that money I believe should go towards this particular population because they have suffered.”
BUILDING A BETTER BUFFALO: LEAH DANIEL HELPS FOSTER KIDS SUCCEED
Leah Daniel is founder of Fostering Greatness, a program that helps former foster kids like herself overcome obstacles. Daniel is working on redeveloping E Delevan Ave properties into post foster-care housing.
Luggage of Love Drive for Buffalo’s foster care youth
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The founder of Fostering Greatness Inc. came up with the initiative to collect luggage items for foster care youths in Buffalo.
Leah Angel Daniel, a founder of the nonprofit, says donating a suitcase can have a second life and help foster children in the process.
GOOD DEEDS BUFFALO INTERVIEW
On this episode of “Good Deeds Buffalo”, host Jordan James introduces us to Leah Angel-Daniel, Founder of Fostering Greatness Inc, A mentor to our communities Foster Care alumni who is giving them the tools to live a fulfilling life!
FRONT SEAT LIFE PODCAST GUEST APPEARANCE
Episode 49 May is National Foster Care Month, along with National Mental Health Awareness Month so in this episode Coach Kelly Marie teams up with the founder of Fostering Greatness to share an incredible story of heartbreak and triumph in New York's Foster Care System.
LEAH ANGEL DANIEL: I SHALL NOT BE MOVED
I Shall Not Be Moved is the curated chronicling of the adolescence of Leah Angel Daniel amidst a complex relationship with her mother, a disengaged family composition, and her matriculation through the foster care system in Buffalo, New York.
Fostering Greatness Founder Leah Angel Daniel Debuts New Book, Competes in ‘Pitch 10’ Competition
The community leader was honored at Mycrobig’s Inaugural Charity Ball in Buffalo this past weekend, as well. Buffalo community leader Leah Angel Daniel took Buffalo by storm this past week; the rising non-profit leader and founder of Fostering Greatness Inc. launched her new book, I Shall Not Be Moved, this week before competing in United Way’s ‘Pitch 10’ competition at Seneca One Tower.
leah angel daniel speaks at the 13th Annual North American Housing and Supportive Services Conference
This year’s theme was on Affordable Housing and Supportive Services: Promoting Equity and Access and offered deliberate discussions and workshops that featured speakers with expertise in the areas of housing, healthcare, behavioral health, residential and supportive services.