Relias
JULY 5, 2023
Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.
KVC
MAY 24, 2022
We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. How This Teacher Helped a Student Overcome Massive Challenges to Graduate High School. Teen Brother and Sister Follow Different Paths After Foster Care.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 6, 2022
If you’re wealthy enough and powerful enough, you can be praised to the skies for your courage in admitting you were addicted to booze and pills, and even establish a celebrity rehab center. I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. "I She's doing amazing," she said.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 8, 2022
A committee of the Texas legislature heard from former foster youth , including a 14-year-old who had been taken away because of her mother’s drug use – even though, when she relapsed, her mother already had placed the youth and her siblings in the safe home of a friend. "I Her experience in foster care was far worse. ?
University of Connecticut
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Perspective: Associate Dean for Research & Scholarship Researchers at the UConn School of Social Work continue to leverage partnerships with state agencies to confront some of the most critical issues facing our society today. The law, passed in 2008, gives states the option to raise the foster care age limit from 18 to 21.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
In The Hill, Dr. Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. They can send this child to better schools. In fact, it might cost, at most, $1.5
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