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This two-part investigation looks into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short—and even puts their lives at risk. “Unsafe In Foster Care” also delves into the systemic problems of the child welfare system and its racist practices. The number of Latino children removed by DCFS in 2020 amounted to almost 60 percent of all children removed, similar to the number of Latino children in the county’s child population. Yet for…
Foster Parent and National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Member, Diane Lanni, interviews her adult birth daughter about being a child of foster parents. It is a common theme heard during RPC classes that resource families worry about the negative impact that bringing children with trauma histories into their home will have on their birth children. In this podcast, Meghan Lanni shares the many ways being part of a foster home actually increased her comfort when transitioning to college, nurtured her enjoyment of diversity, taught her flexibility and resilience when tackling the tasks…
The growing emphasis on recognizing, addressing, and preventing human trafficking is an emerging issue challenging many government and human service agencies. Child welfare is especially affected because children and youth placed in out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect, along with runaway and homeless youth, are at high risk of trafficking.
Effectively addressing human trafficking requires agencies to collaborate on providing judicial, therapeutic, and prevention services. …
In this segment from All Things Considered, Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Deepa Fernandes about her two-part investigation for Latino USA into domestic violence survivors who lose their children to the foster care system.
In this radio segment, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Julia Lurie, senior reporter at Mother Jones, about how the pandemic has impacted the U.S. foster care system and kept children separated from their parents for longer.
In this segment for National Public Radio (NPR), a parent of a child in foster care and several child welfare professionals describe how they are navigating in-person visits, emergency removals and foster placements in the time of the COVD-19 pandemic. Jessica, a mother whose daughter is in foster care and who is supposed to have overnight visits with her daughter two nights a week says "I'm usually, like, you know, feeding her, singing to her, playing with her, we're bonding really good, and it's like it snatched it away from me, this whole virus and being away from her now."
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"Children in Maryland's foster care system are languishing in psychiatric hospitals even when they no longer require hospital care," says this segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. "The state doesn't have enough space to place them elsewhere." The segment features an interview with a teenager in care in the U.S. state of Maryland who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. "A judge ruled in late October that it was not medically necessary for her to stay in the hospital. But the local department of social services responsible for her care doesn't have another…
Earlier this year, the U.S. state of Rhode Island’s foster care system was in the spotlight because of the death of a 9-year-old child in state care. A searing report on the death from the Child Advocate blamed the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families for failing to step in. It also revealed the extent to which the well-being of foster children depends on the capacity of their foster parents. This is especially true for foster kids with serious medical conditions. As part of The Public's Radio series Living In Limbo, this segment features one family working to get the care…
This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. Children involved in the system tell their stories of their lives in foster care and how their experiences led them to run, and then recruited into the sex trafficking industry.
To listen to the podcast episode "No Place to Run," please click the link below. To read the podcast summary from the Texas Tribune, please click the image to the right.