The actor Christian Bale attended the opening of Together California, a foster care village he helped create in Palmdale. The facility's mission is to keep siblings together.
The program is expected to provide $1,000 per month for two years to survivors of domestic violence and current or former foster youth between the ages of 16 and 24.
A local organization recently received more than 100 acres of land in Acton from Los Angeles County hat will permanently house summer camp for foster children.
Many success stories in California's foster care system are thanks to non-profit agencies that find good homes for kids. But those agencies are facing a crisis that could force them to shut down.
Organizers said the goal over the next two years is to turn an adjacent property into another 16-unit complex to serve even more foster youth.
The Board of Supervisors voted to expand its "Breathe" guaranteed-income program to provide financial stipends to more than 2,000 non-minor dependents in the foster care system.