US: What You Need to Know About LGBTQ Foster and Adoption (Press release) Wayfinder Family Services - June 14, 2023 LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in the child welfare system: Roughly 30% of youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ, a rate nearly three times higher than those not in the foster care … [Read more...]

NY: Long-Sought Rent Subsidy Goes Up for New York Foster Youth Leaving State Care Imprint - June 01, 2023 The recently passed New York state budget increased rental subsidies for foster youth aging out of the system for the first time since 1988, raising the amount from $300 to $725 per month. The … [Read more...]

US: Submission for OMB Review: Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) (OMB #0970-0422) (Press release) Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). - May 26, 2023 The Children's Bureau (CB), the … [Read more...]

US: Foster Care's Conflicting Policies For Sexual and Reproductive Health (Commentary) Imprint - May 18, 2023 The privacy and reproductive rights of foster youth across the country are often overlooked, overruled or mired in confusion: Under some state child welfare policies, teenagers living in … [Read more...]

US: The brutal past and uncertain future of Native adoptions Texarkana Gazette - May 16, 2023 Chris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted Native American boys and girls, … [Read more...]

US: Addressing the Mental Health Effects of Foster Care (Commentary) New America - May 16, 2023 When President Ronald Reagan established May as National Foster Care Month in 1988, he emphasized prioritizing the well-being of children in foster care and promoting placements that represent holistic … [Read more...]

US: Not Feeling "American Enough": The Mental Impact of Cross-Cultural Adoption (Commentary) (Includes video) Refinery29 - May 15, 2023 When Eun Ae Koh was 8 months old, she was adopted from her birthplace in Korea by two white Americans. Overnight, she gained two loving parents, three older … [Read more...]

US: Report: States need to improve opportunities for older foster youth | Friday Morning Coffee (Includes video) Tioga Publishing - May 12, 2023 The hope of permanent families, supportive adult connections, stable housing, and post-secondary education remain out of reach for too many young people … [Read more...]

US: Unaccompanied Children Deserve Protection, Not Partisan Politics (Opinion) Public News Time - May 05, 2023 As a state circuit court judge in Wisconsin, I have the privilege of upholding the law and ensuring the fair administration of justice. This includes maintaining the integrity of the U.S. … [Read more...]