Current Events & News

Walk The Talk Celebration

This year’s celebration, benefiting transition age foster youth in San Diego, was co-hosted by Jon Pak with The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank and his spouse, Kyung Pak, and Marleigh & Alan Gleicher. Walk The Talk Honorees were Louarn & Alan Sorkin and Honorary Committee Chairs Marty Goodman & Ellyn Levine M.D. and Lauri & Steve Buehler. This year’s Honorees are JIT co-founder Louarn Sorkin & long-time advisor Alan Sorkin.

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College Bound

Education is the best way to break the cycle of foster care and give the next generation the opportunity to make a contribution of their own. Create a future by investing in a 2017 College Bound youth!

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Pathways To Financial Power

The road to financial security begins with knowledge, networking, and a good job! And there’s an easy way for you to join our 2017 campaign to raise the funds to ensure that the road to self-sufficiency is open to a new Pathways cohort.

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Our Mission

JIT’s mission is to engage a caring community to help transition-age foster youth achieve self-sufficiency and well-being.

Our Vision

We envision a future in which every youth leaving the foster care system has a community of caring adults waiting for them after 18. We believe consistent, long-term help from the heart is the foundation for the success of our youth so they can thrive and enjoy productive, satisfying lives.

Our Story

We often start with meeting an emergency need, such as rent assistance or a bus pass or setting up a first apartment. As we establish trust and build friendships, we address other needs such as money management, education support, and college graduation, job skills, networking, meaningful employment, reliable transportation, and health and well-being. We also build leadership from within — all of our Youth Services coordinators were once in foster care!