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American Bar Association Confronts Anti-Black Discrimination in Child Welfare

8/31/2022

American Bar Association Confronts Anti-Black Discrimination in Child Welfare

The Imprint staff reports

The American Bar Association has called on legal professionals to come to terms with how the child welfare system’s racist roots continues to harm Black families.

Use of Foster Care Went Down During Pandemic. Did Maltreatment?

11/8/2021

Historic Bill Would Remove Federal Requirement to Terminate Parental Rights in Some Cases

Sara Tiano and John Kelly

A bill introduced before Congress would allow states to decide whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

California Rep. Karen Bass Joins Los Angeles Mayoral Race

11/4/2021

Historic Bill Would Remove Federal Requirement to Terminate Parental Rights in Some Cases

Sara Tiano and John Kelly

A bill introduced before Congress would allow states to decide whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

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Nathalia Gibbs Tapped to Coordinate Campaign to Repeal 1997 Adoption Law

9/22/2021

Nathalia Gibbs Tapped to Coordinate Campaign to Repeal 1997 Adoption Law

The Imprint staff reports

A campaign announced in March to seek repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act has brought in a strategist to lead the effort.

Vivek Sankaran.

7/1/2021

Changing the Child Welfare System Starts With Reframing Our View of Families

Opinion

Vivek Sankaran

While conversations about statutory reforms in child welfare are important and will hopefully result in meaningful change, questions linger.

5/7/2021

Mother’s Day Celebration Outside L.A. County Jail Sends Hope to Women Inside

Jeremy Loudenback

Angelique Evans of the Young Women’s Freedom addresses the crowd on Friday. Photo: Jeremy Loudenback
Dozens of women wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “Free Black Mamas” logos and shouting “Happy Mother’s Day” circled a Los Angeles County women’s jail in cars Friday, a public demonstration calling attention to the struggles of incarcerated mothers and their efforts to reunify with children placed in foster care. 

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3/23/2021

Campaign Begins to Repeal Major Federal Child Welfare Law

The Imprint staff reports

Artwork created for the Repeal ASFA campaign by visual artist Jahmel R.
Activists are preparing to embark on a national campaign aimed at repealing the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), bipartisan legislation passed in the late 1990s in an effort to prevent children from languishing in foster care. 

    6/15/2020

    Let’s Root Out Racism in Child Welfare, Too

    Opinion

    Martin Guggenheim

    This is a moment that should not be wasted. Seemingly everyone who wants to be on Martin Luther King Jr.’s side of the arc of justice has issued uncommonly strong criticism of structural racism in the United States, including many who have played an outsize role in shaping America’s child welfare system.

    11/18/2019

    Timely Permanency and the Appellate Process

    Opinion

    Leonard Edwards

    The child welfare system has a problem that is rarely mentioned in the literature. Children wait too long for permanency, and the problem is exasperated by the age of the children.

    Diane Savino Staten Island New York Senate Preserving FAmily Bonds State Central Regist

    8/30/2019

    New York’s Savino to Governor Cuomo: Allow Kid Contact For Parents Who Lose Rights

    Michael Fitzgerald

    Diane Savino is the rare kind of politician: she’s known for her impassioned, sometimes salty candor, and for her granular knowledge of the foster care system. The Democratic New York State Senator for Staten Island spent five years in the early 1990s working for the city, knocking on the doors of parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children.

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