US: Grant Funds National Effort to Engage Foster Youth in Decisions About Care (Requires subscription)
Imprint – November 11, 2021
A national effort is underway to establish new systems in child welfare to better engage and empower foster youth to take part in the decision making around their own care. The new consortium, Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency, is made up of five member organizations and backed by more than $20 million in federal funding. Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.
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