“So how did court go?” I asked our social worker after learning a hearing had been held for a new foster placement that morning. “Fine,” […]
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Practicing 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 […]
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My name is Shanita Dildy-Goings and I am considered a lived experience expert on life within and transitioning from substitute care. Lived experience experts use […]
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If you were given the opportunity to change the world, what would you do? How would you go about it? Who would you get help […]
Read moreKinship Therapeutic Foster Care
By Erica Burgess Kinship care is when children or youth reside with relatives like grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, or someone they have a […]
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