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April – May 2023 issue of Social Work Advocates Is Now Online

Social Work Blog

Aging Out of Foster Care Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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In California, “child welfare’s” ACEs evangelists are saying the quiet part out loud

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

On the contrary, he spent decades working with Physicians for a National Health Program , a group calling for “a publicly financed, non-profit single-payer national health program” – in other words, a version of what Bernie Sanders wants: Medicare for all.