US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #2: Emotional Support After Permanency
Chronicle of Social Change – August 07, 2019
The Chronicle of Social Change is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI), a group of 12 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships. The vast majority of youth who experience foster care also experience trauma, Esteves writes, and the federal government acknowledges that in policy. The Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) offers funds for the purpose of adoption promotion and support, but, she argues, defines the whole thing mostly as promotion. Separating the two purposes into separately-funded blocks within PSSF would force more state efforts at post-permanency support.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-welfare-2/child-welfare-ideas-from-the-experts-2-emotional-support-after-permanency/36699