Welcome to Advokids: A resource for California foster children and their advocates.

• Advokids is a non-profit organization dedicated to defending the rights and meeting the needs of children who are in the foster care system due to abuse or neglect at home

• Advokids seeks to promote public awareness of the needs of children in foster care, specifically their need for safety, security and stability

• Advokids offers direct assistance, support, and education to foster children and their advocates, including lawyers, foster parents, social workers, court-appointed special advocates, judicial officers and mental health professionals

• Advokids provides information to caregivers and other child welfare advocates to assist them in accessing the child welfare system and promoting the best interest of the child

• Advokids acts as a "watch dog", monitoring recurring problems in the child welfare system and attempting to resolve those issues on a systemic basis

• Advokids is dedicated to the proactive development and implementation of innovative pilot projects to advance the welfare of foster children throughout California