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Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues. She spent half of her life in fostercare, struggling with substanceabuse.
Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in fostercare, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We
The closest thing she has to a concrete solution is no solution at all – making it easier to place Native children in hidden fostercare. In South Dakota, Native Americans are 13 percent of the child population and nearly three-quarters of the foster-child population, an issue first exposed in 2010 by NPR.
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in fostercare. But rarely children really do face horrific abuse in their own homes. The research arm of the Maine Legislature produced a series of reports on recent child abuse deaths.
.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter fostercare 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. For example, KVC participated with The Annie E.
● 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 fostercare.
Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.
Heller College of Business at Roosevelt University, the National Council of Jewish Women, and Roosevelt University Womens Leadership Council Advisory Board, as well as on the Development Committee of The Lilac Tree. Rian received her BA in Spanish at Ohio University and earned her MBA from Roosevelt University.
The research presented by the SSW community comprises a variety of topics, including fostercare, LGBTQIA+ youth, substanceabuse treatment, mindfulness-based intervention, and gender-affirming care, among many others.
The effectiveness issue is confined to this paragraph: A wide expansion of mandated reporting laws elsewhere has, in some cases, failed to uncover a rise in abuse. In Pennsylvania, lawmakers expanded the pool of who qualifies as a mandated reporter in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal.
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