Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Receives CRISP Award

Los Angeles — Mayor Karen Bass holds CRISP Award for Outstanding Congressional Social Worker in 2022, her final year as a U.S. House of Representatives member. CRISP Legislative Director Dr. Angelique Day presented the award at a May 6 event in Los Angeles held to support the National Foster Youth Institute founded by Ms. Bass during her tenure in Congress to complement the work of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, which she created on her arrival in Congress in 2011.

CRISP continues to work with the office of her successor Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager, who represents California’s 37th District, the seat formerly held by Mayor Bass, to advance several bills introduced by the Foster Youth Caucus to improve the lives of young people in and aging out of foster care, including bills to provide access to alternative mental health treatments and easier access to driving.