On this week’s podcast, we discuss some of the significant changes to federal child welfare policy proposed in President Biden’s budget for the next fiscal year. Erin Dorrien, vice president of policy for the Maryland Hospital Association and Carrie Etheridge, director of social work at Sheppard Pratt, join to talk about why foster youth are getting stuck in hospitals long after such a restrictive sitting is necessary, a problem that seems to be very acute in Maryland but we are also hearing is a major capacity symptom in other states as well. Reading RoomBiden Proposes Major Spending Shifts to Prioritize Kin, Foster Care Preventionhttps://bit.ly/3iL0U26FMAP: Four letters that drive the biggest source of federal funding for state child welfare serviceshttps://bit.ly/3wD1dk2Maryland H.B. 406: Children in Out-Of-Home Placementshttps://bit.ly/3P1Xp6yStranded in the ER: Can California Change its Treatment of Kids in Crisis?https://bit.ly/3B41pMu

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