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Advocates voice support for a bill that would allow for the establishment of a national standard and database for increased uniformity and transparency.
Efforts to privatize Texas’ foster care on hold while the state investigates whether or not the process was compromised by wife of the former inspector general.
Adam Crapser was adopted and brought to the U.S. from South Korea at four years old. Now, at 41, he's forced to return to a country he barely knows.
This article discusses a task force report, which reveals that over the past 40 years, state and federal agencies have failed to live up to their obligations under the Indian Child Welfare Act. The purpose of the act is to ensure that Native American children remain within tribal families. Prior to the act, Native American children were eight times more likely to be placed into foster care. The report found that California was not providing the services that it is obligated to provide under the act.
The task force stated that agencies failed to understand or properly…
This piece for the Chronicle of Social Change is written by April Dinwoodie, chief executive of the Donaldson Adoption Institute and vice president of the board of Fostering Change for Children, a progressive nonprofit that helps drive innovation in the child welfare system. In the article, Dinwoodie argues that more openness in foster care arrangements is beneficial to children’s wellbeing as well as to their foster and biological families. “Although biological family members may not be able to care for the child, this does not necessarily mean they don’t care about the child,” says…
Social workers and homeless advocates say it is common among young people on the Eastern Shore in Maryland to age out of the foster care system and have to fend for themselves, often becoming homeless. There are few resources to help them transition out of foster care to living on their own. Thus, there is a growing trend of homeless youth considered too old to be wards of the state, but who are not quite ready to live on their own.
A group of social services agencies in Maryland, led by The Institute for Innovation & Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work,…
On September 18th, 2014, the U.S. Senate approved bipartisan child welfare legislation aimed at reducing child sex trafficking, increasing adoptions and improving child support collections. The legislation was first approved by the House on July 23, 2014. According to the release issued by The House Ways and Means Committee, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (H.R. 4980) would encourage states to combat sex trafficking among youth in foster care; promote normalcy for foster youth; help move more children from foster care into adoptive homes or the homes of relatives…
On April 18 – 19, 2016, the New York University’s Silver School of Social Work will host the conference ‘Making Extended Care Work for Foster Youth: The State of the Evidence.’ The conference will highlight new groundbreaking research on extending services for foster care youth as they become adults, while also featuring panels on the core developmental needs for all young adults to thrive in society, work, school, health, living arrangements, and social relationships among others. The conference was designed to…