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Veteran staff member Debbie Raucher has been promoted to Chief Program Officer at John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY), effective July 1st.  Debbie has led...

“They’re like my second family…” That is how one student enrolled in the NextUp program described the quality of support staff members provided in a...

John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY) Youth Advocate Wednesday Pope lived in her car for a full year while she was in foster care because...

Surreal. That is the description that Rose Wilhem gave when she learned that the $13.7 million Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program was spared in the...

Cody Van Felden remembers feeling something special in 2019 when she first participated in Blueprint, a semi-annual conference organized by John Burton Advocates for Youth...

There is big news at John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY): Amy Lemley is leaving, after 18 years with the organization. Amy started at JBAY...

May is graduation season and here at John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY), we are delighted to share the good news about four JBAY Youth...

When former foster youth Erin Clews learned that she was not meeting “Satisfactory Academic Progress,” she had no idea what it meant, how she could...

“The first 18 years of my life tested my resiliency: I was adopted at age 4, experienced 13 years of emotional abuse and was homeless...