By Nadine and Marie Nadine: My foster care journey began in 2016. As a newly licensed foster parent I didn’t really understand what shared parenting […]
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“Viridy First”
Throughout this issue of Fostering Perspectives, you have read several pieces from resource parents, professionals, and those with lived experience working hard to create change […]
Read morePracticing Child Welfare with Lived Experience: From Foster Youth to Social Worker
By Candie Johnson Experiences shape who we are. They shape our perceptions of the world, how we navigate life, the frame we see the world […]
Read moreA Reader Asks: What is Unlicensed Kinship Care?
What is Kinship Care? Kinship care is the full-time care, nurturing, and protection of children by their relatives, members of their tribes or clans, godparents, […]
Read moreLived Experience Focuses Our Child and Family Services Plan on Families
By Rick Zechman, CMSW All states are required by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to develop […]
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