We're pleased to have Karen Worthington, JD, join us for another guest blog post focusing on girls in the foster care system. Karen is a consultant and author focusing on system-involved children. Her most recent work on girls in the child welfare system is ...
Antron McCullough entered the foster care system while in pre-K. He was adopted at the age of 8, then placed back into the foster care system at age 10, where he remained until he aged out at 18. He went through seven elementary schools. Antron has been featured in numerous newspaper...
NCCD Board of Directors member Dr. William Bell became president and CEO of Casey Family Programs (CFP) in January 2006. With more than 30 years of experience in the human services field, he chairs the CFP executive...
Karen Worthington, JD, is a consultant and author focusing on system-involved children. Her most recent work on girls in the child welfare system is Responding to the Needs of Adolescent Girls...
The goal in child welfare is to work with families to assist in alleviating risk to children to promote safety in the home. However, we oftentimes fall short in developing a partnership with the family to achieve this goal. Assessments and case plans historically have been created without the...
Kristin Kelly, JD, works at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law in the areas of child welfare, implementation of federal legislation, and court improvement. She focuses her time on the educational needs of...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) made history today when it released the instrument that will be used to audit the...
This May, NCCD, along with thousands of individuals and organizations across the nation, will observe National Foster Care Month. Join us as we honor the ongoing contributions of foster parents, volunteers, educators, researchers, policymakers, social workers, and other leaders who work to...
Daniel Heimpel is the founder of Fostering Media Connections and the publisher of the Chronicle of Social Change.
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Tracey Feild is director of the Child Welfare Strategy Group, a unit within the Center for Systems Innovations of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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