foster care Archive
The Arizona Daily Star is in the middle of publishing the results from a year-long investigation into how to fix the child welfare system in that state. As I’ve noted before, the answers are relevant to every state. Right at the moment, the answers may …
A new report from the National Center for Youth Law looks at state policies that are successful at helping older foster youth gain permanency as they transition to adulthood. For... By Jeremy Loudenback This post Report: Five Ways States Can …
A writer who was barred from blogging for an education journal after writing a column widely viewed as racist now assures us that there is no racism in child welfare – and predictive analytics will correct the racism that isn’t …
In a previous post to the NCCPR Child Welfare blog, I discussed how actual experts on substance abuse keep pleading with reporters not to make the same mistakes in covering the opioid epidemic that they made covering the crack epidemic – …
Earlier this month, a Rhode Island state senator introduced a bill that would compel the state’s foster care agency to split the cost of transporting foster youth to school with... By Daniel Heimpel This post Scarcity Pits Education Against Foster …
The Family First Prevention Services Act has become law. It includes the biggest change to the structure of federal child welfare finance since the establishment of the Title IV-E entitlement... By John Kelly This post A Complete Guide to the …
A new audit of Oregon’s child welfare system is an exercise in willful ignorance. That makes it more part of the problem than part of the solution.
The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill last week that will prevent the state’s child protection agency from requiring foster parents to lock up firearms. Lawmakers say the Department... By Christie Renick This post Firearms and Foster Homes: Arizona …
Earlier this month, the Family First Prevention Services Act became law, ushering in significant changes to the way that the federal government funds child welfare systems. The law is aimed... By John Kelly This post Family First Act Feedback: Comments …
In 2015, California Assemblymember Mark Stone (D) introduced legislation that launched the state’s Continuum of Care Reform (CCR), an overhaul of the state’s foster care system. Under 2015’s Assembly Bill... By Sara Tiano This post California Assemblyman Mark Stone on …
