Foster children typically enter child welfare as the result of numerous ACEs. Unfortunately, being part of the system can cause even more trauma. California child welfare laws require putting the best interests and the wellbeing of a child first, and yet dependency courts often do not have all the information they need to make trauma informed decisions. Advokids, a California nonprofit, works to ensure that foster parents, clinicians, pediatricians, child advocates and many others have the the legal and scientific information they need to more effectively advocate to prevent foster children from being further traumatized. See Preventing Further Traumatization of Foster Children for a recent article in The Chronicle of Social Change.
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