Foster Care Human Services University 
Michigan Social Work
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.
Social Work Blog
APRIL 25, 2022
Kristi Wood says her eyes were opened to the work of NASW when she was a student in the part-time MSW program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments.
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KVC
APRIL 18, 2024
.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2021
But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.” Similarly, the U.S.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2024
And letting children remember their birth parents and acknowledging the love between them may make things uncomfortable for the people for whom the system is designed: Overwhelmingly middle-class disproportionately white foster and adoptive parents. But as Prof. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 29, 2023
● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.
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