On this week’s podcast we discuss a foster care capacity crisis in Texas, promising programs and bad facilities in Los Angeles, and former foster youth getting positions of leadership in federal government. In the early 2010s, Chicago’s juvenile detention center got a much-needed physical overhaul. Its leadership at the time used the opportunity to set up a gold-standard trial to test a new approach to engaging the youth inside. Juvenile detention expert David Roush joins us to talk about what they found and what’s happened since. Reading RoomHealers in The System: From the Health Field to Child Welfare LeadershipRegister for free! Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 4pm EST (can’t make it? Sign up and receive the recording!)https://imprintnews.org/webinarsVirtual Town Hall on Pandemic Assistance for Foster YouthTODAY at 4pm ESThttps://thinkofus.typeform.com/to/hUC75vWwMore Texas Foster Youth Are Sleeping in State Offices Than at Any Other Point in Recent Yearshttps://bit.ly/3hIQL5RTexas Foster Care Children Exposed to Sexual Abuse, Given Wrong Medication and Neglected in Unlicensed Placements, New Report Sayshttps://bit.ly/39jqc2LLos Angeles County Supervisors Approve Therapeutic Approaches to Youth Detentionhttps://bit.ly/3AiTHgTState Agency Declares L.A.’s Juvenile Halls ‘Unsuitable for Confinement of Minors’https://bit.ly/3CoEcVdFoster Youth Advocate Joins Biden Administration’s Child Welfare Agency Leadershiphttps://bit.ly/39c0DR7Child Welfare Policymakers Need to Learn User Centered Designhttps://bit.ly/3kn5mG7Young Adult Consultant and Youth Support Leads Applicationwww.bit.ly/ICFYAC2021

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