US: Readout of White House Meeting to Commemorate National Foster Care Month (Press release)
White House – May 27, 2022
Yesterday, the White House commemorated National Foster Care Month with a roundtable highlighting seven young people with lived experience in the child welfare system. Participants discussed the importance of increased mental health services and trauma support for children in the child welfare system, the importance of kinship care, sibling connections, peer mentorship, and culturally competent placement, the need for continued resources for foster youth as they transition out of care, and the link between the child welfare system and the criminal justice system. Participants noted the disproportionate impact of the child welfare system on children of color, especially Black and Native youth, and on LGBTQI+ youth.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/27/readout-of-white-house-meeting-to-commemorate-national-foster-care-month/