US: After Her Own Experience in Foster Care, Maleeka Jihad Works to Keep Families Intact
Imprint – October 11, 2021
Foster parents don’t know what kind of child is going to come into their home. Sometimes they’ll just say, these are the ages that we want, and then everything else is open. Well, because of that, there is not a lot of conversation around the child’s ethnicity. So, for instance, our home study goes a little further and says, how will you keep that child within their culture? If they are Latino boys, how are you going to keep them within that Latino culture? What does that look like for you? How are you going to implement that?
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