HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Human Services TIME & DATE: 9:30AM, Tuesday, February 21, 2006 PLACE: E1.026 CHAIR: Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp ___________________________________________________________________________ The committee will meet to take invited testimony on Interim Charge 1 Examine ways foster care provides, or does not provide, preparation for adult living to foster children. Review programs other states have adopted to enhance the likelihood that foster care alumni will complete a secondary education or maintain trade skills learned while in foster care. Examine the correlation between the school drop-out pattern, job maintenance and poverty, and foster care preparation programs for adult living. ___________________________________________________________________________