University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda currently is a Social Worker in the Statewide Quality Improvement Division’s Case Practice Review Unit. Yolanda has experience working with families as a Social Worker in the Ongoing Social Work Unit, Sexual Abuse Specialty Unit, Medically Complex Specialty Unit and Permanency Specialty Unit.

Criminal Justice 52

Criminal Justice Foster Care Adoption Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Substance Abuse 98

Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Angelique Day, her former professor at Wayne State University.

Criminal Justice 52

Criminal Justice Foster Care University Schools 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. It amounts to computerized racial profiling. Anthony Avalos. Noah Cuatro.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Foster Care 98