Tech Alphabet Soup and Child Welfare

06/12/23 • 58 min

What can the ChatGPT and Bards of the world do to improve the child welfare and juvenile justice systems? On this week’s podcast, Carole Hussey of Evolv Strategy Group joins to talk about that and why states are hesitant to make big changes to case management systems.

Reading Room

Feds Chart Future for Antique Data Management Systems
https://bit.ly/3CtgObb

How Tech Ties into Family First
https://bit.ly/3CkSfx4

Open AI/ChatGPT
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Google Bard
https://bard.google.com/
Tool Kit Helps Child Welfare Leaders Streamline Procurement Processes
https://bit.ly/43BtqJf

Reading Room

Feds Chart Future for Antique Data Management Systems
https://bit.ly/3CtgObb

How Tech Ties into Family First
https://bit.ly/3CkSfx4

Open AI/ChatGPT
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Google Bard
https://bard.google.com/
Tool Kit Helps Child Welfare Leaders Streamline Procurement Processes
https://bit.ly/43BtqJf

Previous Episode

High Stakes, Silent Systems: Foster Youth and Reproductive Health

On this week’s podcast we discuss some of the figures in the biennial report on state-by-state child welfare spending from Child Trends. Also: looming deadlines on “Family Miranda” laws in two states and a Supreme Court case on ICWA, and more.

Imprint reporter Michael Fitzgerald joins to talk about his investigative reporting looking into sexual and reproductive health policies for youth in foster care, an issue brought into sharp focus last year when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Reading Room

Child Welfare Financing Survey SFY 2020
https://bit.ly/43EVtHE

San Bernardino Foster Youth File Class-Action Lawsuit
https://bit.ly/42rUp8O

Texas Bill To Increase Rights for Parents Under Investigation Passes State House and Senate
https://bit.ly/3qk9nR5

Another Try for Legislation In New York Giving Parents ‘Miranda’ Rights During CPS Investigations
https://bit.ly/3oQZc5V

California’s Santa Clara County Aims to Keep Girls Out of Juvenile Lockups
https://bit.ly/3Hh2lm3

Four California Counties Join Effort to End the Incarceration of Girls
https://bit.ly/43hWB42

High Stakes, Silent Systems
A three-part investigation on sexual and reproductive health in foster care.
https://imprintnews.org/special-series/high-stakes-silent-systems

Next Episode

SCOTUS Stunner: The Indian Child Welfare Act Stands

Last week, in a surprising 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court fully upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in Brackeen v. Haaland. We break down the full opinion of the court and their various reasons for siding in support of the 1978 law that was passed at a time when nearly a third of indigenous children were separated from their family.

We are joined for reaction to the Brackeen ruling by three women close to the case:

-Kate Fort of Michigan State University, one of the foremost experts on ICWA in this country, who assisted with the tribes’ preparation for the Supreme Court oral arguments

-Chrissi Ross Nimmo, deputy attorney general for Cherokee Nation, one of the the tribes that officially was party to the case

-Rebecca Nagle, journalist and architect of the podcast This Land, whose second season focused on the Brackeen case.

Reading Room

Indian Child Welfare Act Stands, Native Families Empowered
https://bit.ly/3PjEV3L

The Imprint’s continuing coverage of Brackeen v. Haaland, 2018-2023
https://bit.ly/3ttyzTy

Opinion in Brackeen v. Haaland
https://bit.ly/3PhDGCa

Imprint Reporting by Nancy Marie Spears
https://imprintnews.org/author/nancy-marie-spears

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