Santa Clara County will soon launch a pilot program to bring financial support to unhoused high school seniors after the county's Board of Supervisors unanimously approved it Tuesday.
From April to August 2023, the program will send out unconditional payments of $1,000 a month to homeless students in their final year of high school in an effort to ease their transition into higher education or work opportunities.
The hope was to combat the 15,000 unhoused seniors in California from slipping further into poverty without proper financial resources -- something Cortese refers to as the"summer melt." Cortese, a former Santa Clara County supervisor, previously created the county's basic income program for young people exiting foster care in June 2020. The program was recently renewed by county supervisors to extend into 2023.
Ellenberg said this pilot program is an opportunity for the county to both provide more than just self-improvement programs for people in need, and to rewrite the"harmful and narrow personal responsibility narratives" that those in poverty cannot be trusted with unrestricted cash.
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