An Invitation to Remake Child Welfare [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/7/1912:00 PM

A few days before Christmas, the federal government extended an invitation to state child welfare agencies that has the potential to completely transform the system.

The invitation did not arrive with great publicity. Nor was it lengthy. Instead, it was announced in a few ordinary-looking sentences, in a very ordinary-looking email.

But looks can be deceiving. The change announced by the federal government could lead to far fewer children being placed in foster care. It could expedite the reunification of those children in care. It could increase visitation between children in care and their parents. And it could get children into permanent homes more quickly, even when they can’t return home.

[For more on this story by Vivek Sankaran, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...-child-welfare/33319]

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