Last November, the county begin discussing the academy’s future with foster youth, advocates and other residents.<\/p>\n
An update to the Board of Supervisors is set for August, and feature local input “and potential paths forward including the potential for closure, with a full plan presented within 18 months,” according to the county.<\/p>\n
“Early ideas include expanding youth programs, adding wellness and recreation spaces, enhancing workforce development and creating new housing options for foster youth,” officials added.<\/p>\n
In May, supervisors decided not to move forward with a proposal to phase out services at the academy.<\/p>\n
While that plan would allow for seniors and juniors to graduate, a transition would “be carried out gradually and in a developmentally appropriate way that safeguards both academic continuity and emotional well- being,” a board letter stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last November, the county begin discussing the academy’s future with foster youth, advocates and other residents. An update…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-399685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}