Centering Lived Experience with Sixto Cancel

On this week’s episode, we discuss new findings that connect anti-poverty measures to reducing child maltreatment, the Democrats’ plan for unaccompanied minors at the border, and the Road to Healing Tour.

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Sixto Cancel, founder and CEO of Think of Us, joins to discuss his organization’s new Center for Lived Experience, kinship care, and authentic vs. performative gestures in the child welfare arena.

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Association Between State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, and Foster Care in the US, 2004-2016 https://bit.ly/3zduTJa Money and Maltreatment https://bit.ly/3hcelIU Children’s Safe Welcome Act https://bit.ly/3PuOPMS About The Children’s Safe Welcome Act https://bit.ly/3PApMYR Children and Family Services Workers Allege Rape, Unsafe Conditions for Youth and Staff at The County Office https://bit.ly/3PzOPeF Historic ‘Healing Tour’ Launched in Oklahoma Honors Survivors of Indian Boarding Schools https://bit.ly/3ylwKtO The Indian Child Welfare Act: What’s At Stake with Brackeen v. Haaland https://bit.ly/3talYW3

Prioritizing Kinship Care with Kim Clifton of HALOS

On this week’s podcast we discuss a new kinship prioritization in Washington, New York gets sued (twice), privatization ends in Nebraska, and controversial new legislation in Alabama and Tennessee. 

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Kim Clifton of HALOS in South Carolina, joins us to talk about kinship care, what federal funding for kinship navigators could mean for her state, and hidden foster care.

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Washington Supreme Court: ‘Meaningful Preference’ for Kin Is Required https://bit.ly/3IcVdp1 Keeping Families Together Act https://bit.ly/3vs1MP4 Lawmakers Pass Child Welfare Changes, Teacher Incentives, Tax Break on Tampons https://bit.ly/3jPfxSw Alabama Lawmakers Vote to Make Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Trans Youth a Felony https://politi.co/3MhinMB New Law Shields Religious Foster, Adoption Agencies from Discrimination Lawsuits https://bit.ly/392ordz New York State Failed to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Care to Kids, Lawsuit Claims https://bit.ly/3JOdSav Lawsuit Alleges New York Created ‘Extremely Harmful’ Shadow Foster Care System https://bit.ly/3xvWoxa January Contreras Confirmed to Biden’s Top Child Welfare Post https://bit.ly/3JKsYh5 Hidden Foster Care: Continuing Coverage in The Imprint https://imprintnews.org/special-series/hidden-foster-care

Foster Care in India, Kinship in America, and More with Ian Forber-Pratt

We discuss the seeming contradiction of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to consider medical services to trans kids as abuse, and the Washington State Supreme Court’s ruling that sets heightened expectations around kinship in the child welfare system.

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Ian Forber-Pratt, the director of Global Advocacy & Growth for Children’s Emergency Relief International, joins to discuss his long, international path through child welfare. Forber-Pratt was adopted from his home country of India, grew up in Missouri and has since worked on child welfare reform in both nations. We talked about his childhood, his effort to create a foster care system in India (which previously saw abuse/neglect handled informally in the community or with big orphanages and institutions), and kinship care in America.

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Free Online Event! Homeless in Foster Care: What Would Really Keep Foster Youth from Sleeping in Offices To Register: https://imprintnews.org/webinars Pre-Order Today! College Ready, Career Prepared: A Guide to Postsecondary Education for Youth in Foster Care https://bit.ly/caready Texas Governor Calls on Citizens to Report Parents of Transgender Kids for Abuse https://nbcnews.to/3JYeN8F 5 Texas DAs Defy Gov. Greg Abbott, Won’t Treat Gender Affirming Care for Trans Youth As Child Abuse https://bit.ly/3HkKYO0 Washington Supreme Court: ‘Meaningful Preference’ for Kin Is Required https://bit.ly/3IcVdp1 Keyon’s Case Heads to Washington Supreme Court https://bit.ly/3sAirg1 A New Era of Community-Based Social Work – Lessons Learned from Impossible Odds https://bit.ly/35AcREI Nonprofit Launched to Replicate Missouri Family-Finding Program https://bit.ly/35xCt4O