Listen "The Fall of Child Poverty, and Home Visiting’s Looming Fiscal Cliff"
Episode Synopsis
On this week’s podcast we discuss a major drop in the use of powerful psych meds on California foster youth, and discuss how child welfare metrics behaved during the prolonged decline in child poverty that was recently analyzed by Child Trends.Jenny Harper joins to talk about the looming federal cliff facing a program aimed at supporting new and expectant mothers, and what advocates are hoping will happen in the near future. Reading RoomPrescribing Antipsychotic Drugs to California Foster Youth Declines Dramaticallyhttps://bit.ly/3BcmTaWPsych Meds in Jailhttps://bit.ly/3DDsKci Philly Took $5 Million in Foster Children’s Social Security Payments Without Telling Themhttps://bit.ly/3BtH843Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Povertyhttps://bit.ly/3Bo3ZOxExpanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Povertyhttps://nyti.ms/3f0SrcsMaternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Programhttps://bit.ly/3eXjDsHHome Visiting: MIECHV Delay Already Hurting State, Local Programshttps://bit.ly/3qN2tkd
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