Building the Case for Rewiring Child Welfare

22/02/2021 51 min Episodio 21
Building the Case for Rewiring Child Welfare

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Episode Synopsis

On this week’s episode we discuss new access to birth certificates for adoptees in New York with reporter Michael Fitzgerald, more job training efforts for system-involved teens and young adults in California and Nevada, and a national campaign to end the use of solitary confinement for youth. Ned Breslin, CEO of Tennyson Center for Children, joins us to talk about Colorado’s Rewiring initiative aimed at proving that more money to help families avoid crises will reap huge savings in the long run.  Reading RoomAdoption Secrecy Has Ended for Thousands Since New York Unsealed Birth Recordsbit.ly/2ZA5iYpHouston Region Funds Community-Based Alternatives to Youth Incarcerationbit.ly/3bqHdslChild Welfare Workers Scramble to Protect Foster Youth through Deadly Texas Winter Stormbit.ly/3aImDVsStates Jump on New Chance to Target Most-Vulnerable Youth for Job Trainingbit.ly/3qIPluS$1 Million to Fund New Phase of Fight Against Solitary Confinement for Youthbit.ly/3dzteDjWhat Child Welfare Can Learn from ‘Rewiring’bit.ly/3ujCQrR

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