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Listen to Q&A with Foster Youth Parent Leader RocQuel Johnson

RocQuel Johnson, Foster Youth Advisory and Parent Student Advisory Committees in Oakland Unified School District

“One of the things I always tell any parent—whether they’re foster youth or not—jump in. Jump into the work. We really need to have people who care enough about our students, who want to see policies that support them to….be the best they can.” RocQuel Johnson, a long-standing leader on the Foster Youth Advisory and Parent Student Advisory Committees in Oakland Unified School District has plunged into the work locally.

Hear more about what districts should be doing to support foster youth from Angelica Jongco’s 20-minute conversation with RocQuel at this link. And then check out this 2018 video of her daughter Diamond Greer-Green, who developed into an active student leader on the Foster Youth Advisory Committee and Parent Student Advisory Committee through her engagement in the LCAP process.

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