Introducing...SafeCamp Audio!

05/02/23 • 34 min

This week we discuss SafeCamp Audio, the forthcoming podcast network from Fostering Media Connections, which will feature terrific audio projects on child welfare, youth justice and more. Click here to join the SafeCamp newsletter!

We also review some recent headlines, including new research on racial disparities in the child welfare process, renewed Congressional interest in congregate care, family separation in Ukraine, and more.

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Bipartisan Bill Introduced To Tighten Oversight of Residential Centers for Youth
https://bit.ly/41WfAjU

Mississippi Governor Touts ‘Culture of Life’ with New Laws
https://bit.ly/3HSgTsr

Abortion Ruling Means More and Riskier Births in Mississippi
https://bit.ly/3oUbbiR

State-Level Variation in the Cumulative Prevalence of Child Welfare System Contact
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36874408/

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Child Protective Services Reporting, Substantiation and Placement, With Comparison to Non-CPS Risks and Outcomes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36990447/

State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
https://bit.ly/3LL0Oa4

Think of Us Receives $47.5 Million from TED’s Audacious Project
https://bit.ly/3Nots26

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Bipartisan Bill Introduced To Tighten Oversight of Residential Centers for Youth
https://bit.ly/41WfAjU

Mississippi Governor Touts ‘Culture of Life’ with New Laws
https://bit.ly/3HSgTsr

Abortion Ruling Means More and Riskier Births in Mississippi
https://bit.ly/3oUbbiR

State-Level Variation in the Cumulative Prevalence of Child Welfare System Contact
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36874408/

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Child Protective Services Reporting, Substantiation and Placement, With Comparison to Non-CPS Risks and Outcomes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36990447/

State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
https://bit.ly/3LL0Oa4

Think of Us Receives $47.5 Million from TED’s Audacious Project
https://bit.ly/3Nots26

Previous Episode

Congregate Care and Family First, Part 2

Last week we talked to Keri Richmond, manager of child welfare policy for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), about a 50-state look at the new federal rules prompted by the Family First Prevention Services act around the use of group homes, residential programs and other forms of congregate care.

On this week’s podcast we talk to Jim Czarniak about a deep dive on the same topic that focused on New York. Czarniak’s work surfaced very similar findings to the national review done by AAP.

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Eighteen Months Later: New York Family First Implementation Shows Little
Change for Foster Care Youth Placed in Group Care
https://bit.ly/3H1oDb1

Family First Implementation: A One Year Review of State Progress in Reforming Congregate Care
https://bit.ly/3L5m3Do

Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act
https://bit.ly/3A4L9vQ
The Imprint’s Complete Guide to the Family First Act
https://imprintnews.org/special-series/complete-guide-the-family-first-act

Next Episode

Families Over Dispositions

A recent law journal article lays out three arguments against the rate at which many child welfare systems terminate parental rights. “The Ties That Bind” lays out data, outcomes and legal reasoning to support that idea.

We are joined this week by the co-authors of this paper: Christopher Church, a pro-bono attorney for the CHAMPS Clinic at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a co-director for the Appeal for Youth Clinic at Emory Law in Atlanta, and Vivek Sankaran, who directs the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and Child Welfare Appellate Clinics at the University of Michigan.

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Coming Soon: SafeCamp Audio, the forthcoming podcast network from Fostering Media Connections, which will feature terrific audio projects on child welfare, youth justice and more. Click here to join the SafeCamp newsletter!

The Ties that Bind Us: An Empirical, Clinical, and Constitutional Argument Against Terminating Parental Rights
https://bit.ly/3nB2BVV

Family Court Review
Special Issue: Race, Racism and Child Welfare
https://bit.ly/42vXXY3