Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #3: Protecting LGBTQ Rights in Child Welfare [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 7/26/183:23 PM

The Chronicle of Social Change is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI), a group of 10 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships.

The program is overseen each summer by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. Each of the FYI participants crafted a policy recommendation during their time in Washington, D.C. Today we highlight the recommendation of Terrence Scraggins, 28, a Navy veteran and undergraduate student at Boise State University.

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Scraggins, who is gay and a veteran of the United States Navy, seeks federal actions aimed at ensuring that states recruit LGBTQ people to become foster and adoptive parents, and development programs to serve the needs of LGBTQ youth in foster care.

[For more on this story by John Kelly, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...-child-welfare/31568]

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