NATION MUST KEEP PROMISE OF SAFE, PERMANENT HOMES ALL Edition

Our work as co-chairs of the nonpartisan Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care introduced us to many children whose lives were as tragic as those profiled by ABC. They compel us to act. Our commission included some of the nation's most innovative child welfare administrators, judges, schola...

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Published inWisconsin state journal
Main Author BILL FRENZEL and BILL GRAY
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Madison, Wis Madison Newspapers, Inc 25.06.2006
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Summary:Our work as co-chairs of the nonpartisan Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care introduced us to many children whose lives were as tragic as those profiled by ABC. They compel us to act. Our commission included some of the nation's most innovative child welfare administrators, judges, scholars and advocates. It included foster and adoptive parents, guardians, and a young woman who grew up in foster care. We came together and stayed together around the simple principle that every child needs a safe, permanent family. Our recommendations were directed to two major sources of foster care drift. The first are the courts, which have the authority to place children in foster care and the responsibility to monitor their progress toward safe, permanent homes. The second is the federal government, which created and administers a misdirected financing system that encourages states to place and keep children in foster care rather than to keep families safely together or to secure safe, loving homes with adoptive parents or legal guardians.
ISSN:0749-405X